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97 smoking-related deaths between January and February
Total of 439 death caused by smoking during 2012.
1 July 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Smoking was the cause of death of 536 individuals in 14 months, Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia revealed in parliament this evening.
The minister was replying to a question raised by PN MP Jason Azzopardi.
Farrugia said the amount of deaths registered in the national death register and considered to have been caused by smoking during 2012 amounted to 439 cases.
The cases include deaths in both Malta and Gozo.
Between January and February of this year, the provisionary number of cases amounted to 97 deaths.
Data for the months of March and April was still being collected.
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@jgbusuttil, I don't want to sound like i am supporting smoking, but I think the smoker pays enough taxes on cigarettes to cover the medical costs. So rest assured you are not paying for there mistakes.
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I find it sadly ironic that we can determine and establish how many deaths are declared as attributable to tobacco-related products ,yet we can never advise how any deaths or serious injuries on our roads are attributable to DUI instances or as a direct result of excessive speed being a contributing factor!In fact, we never hear of the root cause and/or reason as to why such road traffic incident deaths or injuries occur.Why is that?
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Everyone knows that smoking is not very good for you. It costs lives and it causes illness that need to be paid by the tax payer, which I believe is very unfair. If addicts of anything need to carry on with their destructive lifestyle, I should not be forced to support them with my tax contribution. Of course, people who are addicted to highly addictive legal mind-altering drugs, prescribed by psychiatrist need to be exempt. This is because that is all psychiatrists are taught to do, directly and indirectly by the pharmaceutical industry who make huge profits on them. Psychiatrist/psychologists are trained to help illegal drug addicts kick their habit but not legal drug addicts, even when the symptoms of their problems are corrected. What a scam!
