Some 700,000 people in the Netherlands are suffering from chronic illnesses linked to smoking, figures collated by national health institute RIVM on behalf of anti-smoking league Rookvrije Generatie have shown. It is the first time the number of people who have cancer, lung disease or heart disease caused by smoking has been established. The figures show that tens of thousands of smokers fall ill at a relatively young age. Some 28,000 people in their forties and 111,000 in their fifties Read this story
