Press 450,000 hospital cases caused by smoking-specific illnesses in 2015

Press release No. 179 of 31 May 2017

WIESBADEN – In 2015, a total of 449,804 patients (267,308 men and 182,496 women) were treated on a full in-patient basis in hospitals in Germany due to smoking-specific illnesses. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of such treatments increased by 30% over the last ten years.

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