Listen: No Smoking Day

March 13^th marks the 40^th anniversary of No Smoking Day and leading charities, including ASH, Cancer Research UK and Asthma + Lung UK, are joining forces with the government to encourage the nation’s 5.3 million smokers to try to quit.

Cigarettes are responsible for 64,000 deaths a year in England, no other consumer product kills up to two-thirds of its users.

Smoking is the biggest preventable killer in the UK and places a huge burden on the NHS. Almost every minute of every day someone is admitted to hospital in England with a smoking-related disease and in 2022-23 there were over 400,000 hospital admissions in England due to smoking.

Ros spoke to GP and media medic Dr Nighat Arif and Sue Mountain.