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• Wales | Smoking 'costs NHS £1m each day' 

Every year 6,000 people die in Wales as a result of smoking

New figures indicate that smoking is costing the NHS in Wales more than £7m every week.

A report commissioned by Ash Wales and British Heart Foundation Cymru reveals that smoking related diseases cost NHS Wales an estimated £386m in 2007/08.

Smoking accounts for around 22% of adult hospital admission costs, over £235m every year, the research said.

The assembly government said tackling smoking was a priority and attitudes were changing towards smoking.

The report, being presented at an international tobacco control conference in Cardiff by Prof Ceri J Phillips of Swansea University, said £43m was also spent on GP consultations.

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