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•According to the World Health Organisation, tobacco is the world’s
largest cause of preventable death.
•The total tax revenue from tobacco in the UK in 2015-16 was £12billion.
•Estimates of the direct annual cost to the NHS of tobacco-related diseases range from £3-6bn.
•King James IV in 1604 described smoking as a “custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.
•The average adult in China smokes 4,124 cigarettes a year, the world’s highest figure.
•There are about a billion smokers in the world of whom 80 per cent are male.
•The word tabacco in Spanish was originally used for the pipe or tube through which native Americans inhaled tobacco smoke.
•Tobago took its name from tobacco, possible because of its cigar or pipe-like shape.
•The word tobacco was first seen in English in 1577. Tobacconist, in 1600, meant a heavy smoker.
