Manchester has the worst rate of smoking-related deaths in the COUNTRY, a new report has revealed.

The impact that smoking has on the city’s health has been laid bare in an annual report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Figures for 2014/15, the latest available, show an estimated 458 people per 100,000 died from a smoking-related condition in Manchester - more than double the figure for Harrow, which had the lowest rate at 185.

Shockingly, one in every 220 Mancunians aged over 35 is estimated to die from smoking.

But there is also some good news when it comes to tobacco.

The report also revealed that Mancunians were some of the keenest quitters in England.

The city’s bill for prescription stop-smoking medicines was £2.4m during 2014-15 - the second highest spend in the country, after London.

A prescription was issued for one in every 31 people in Manchester, compared to a national rate of one prescription for every 40 residents.

Manchester is still one of the worst places in the country for people going to hospital for smoking-related diseases.

Figures show 1,732 residents were admitted to hospital for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2014/15 - 1,053 for every 100,000 people in the city aged 35 and over.

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That was the second highest rate for any local authority in the country, behind Burnley on 1,064 emergency admissions per 100,000.

Across Greater Manchester, 8,332 people were admitted to hospital in 2014/15 for smoking-related diseases.

After Manchester, Salford had the highest admissions rate in the region, with 772 per 100,000.

Trafford had the fewest with 390 per 100,000.

Nationally, deaths caused by smoking are at their lowest ever levels - 77,800 in 2014, compared to nearly 90,000 in 2004.

Only one in five Brits were smokers in 2014. It was almost one in two 40-years-ago.

David Regan, Manchester council’s director of public health and partnerships, said: “We are committed to reducing tobacco use and smoking related diseases.

“Our redesigned Wellbeing Service, in place from April 1, offers the one-to-one service which we believe will be much more effective in helping lower tobacco use in Manchester.

“We are investing £1.9m per year in this service for the next two years, which is a significant sum of money.

“Furthermore, we are developing additional support packages with primary care - GPs and pharmacists - for smokers that take account of new products that help people to quit.”

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