16 people a day diagnosed with smoking related cancer in Yorkshire

Each day, 16 people in Yorkshire discover they've got cancer caused by smoking.

Published 1st Feb 2016

Each day, 16 people in Yorkshire discover they've got cancer caused by smoking.

A new campaign is being launched to make more people aware that lighting up is linked not just to the disease in lungs but 16 different types of it, including of the stomach, kidney and ovaries.

In South Yorkshire the latest figures show that in one year alone, over 1500 people were diagnosed with a smoking-related cancer.