About 1,260 hospital admissions a day due to smoking, new figures show

An estimated 460,000 hospital admissions in 2010/11 among people aged 35 and over were due to smoking, according to new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) figures.**REGIONAL DATA NOT AVAILABLE FROM THIS PUBLICATION This is the equivalent of 1,260 admissions a day; representing one in 20 of all admissions to hospital in 2010/11. Statistics on Smoking: England 2012 presents a broad range of information on health issues related to smoking and includes new statistics from the HSCIC’s Hospital Episodes Statistics. They show that in 2010/11, among people aged 35 and over: