Look how much smoking costs per day, per week and per year! Think what better things you could be spending your money on!

If you smoke

10 cigarettes a day, £2.25
Per week £15.75
Per year £819.00

20 cigarettes a day, £4.50
Per week £31.50
Per year £1638.00

30 cigarettes a day, £6.75
Per week £47.27
Per year £2457.00

40 cigarettes a day, £9.00
Per week £63.00
Per year £3276.00

The 1,154,000,000 cigarettes smoked by 11 to 15 year old children during 1994 cost £135 million and provided £108 million in tax revenue for the Government. This is more than 30 times the amount the Government spent to try and reduce the number of children smoking.

The UK Government contributes to a total Europe-wide subsidy for the tobacco-growing industry. In 1997 the European Union spent 998 million ECU (£735 million) on tobacco-growers. These European tobacco growers are based mainly in Greece and Italy.

A large part of the tobacco grown in Europe is unmarketable and is sold at extremely low prices to Eastern Europe and Africa.

In 1997 The Government earned £10,305 million in revenue from tobacco.

The Western world has six major tobacco companies, these are Rothmans, BAT Industries, Imperial Tobacco, Phillip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and American Brands. The first three of these are based in Britain.

The increasing use of machinery has seen a reduction in the number of people employed by the tobacco companies. In the UK in 1979 40,000 were employed, by 1996 only 13,800 were employed. This represents a reduction of 72% in the number of people employed. During the same period there was a reduction in the number of cigarettes consumed in the UK of 22% and the amount of cigarettes exported from the UK actually grew.