Half long term smokers will die prematurely as a result of smoking, half of these in middle age.

Every year 120,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking, accounting for 1/5 of all deaths.

“Hypnosis is THE most effective way of giving up smoking according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little.”
New Scientist, Vol 136, issue 1845, p6