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EDITORIAL
Smoking cessation
Smoking cessation services: use them or lose them
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor J Britton
Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; j.britton@virgin.net
Medical professionals in the UK need to engage more in smoking cessation services
Keywords: smoking cessation; tobacco; health policy
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Of the 120 000 people who die from smoking each year in the UK, more than half die from a respiratory disease. In 1997 deaths from lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pneumonia caused by smoking totalled over 63 000,1 all of which were potentially avoidable. These figures show that preventing smoking is more relevant to respiratory medicine than any other speciality. In this issue of Thorax Abdullah and Husten2 review the priorities for tobacco control in the developing world and summarise the difficulties of developing smoking cessation in countries already severely challenged by generally low levels of health service funding and infrastructure, by competing public health priorities such as HIV, by low levels of public awareness of smoking as a dangerous behaviour, and other issues. However, one of the problems they identify that is especially relevant in the UK is the need to engage medical
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