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schema:text	What was claimed One in four cancers are as a result of smoking. Our verdict This is not quite right. Around 15% of cancer cases are caused by smoking in the UK. But it does cause roughly one in four cancer deaths. One in four cancers are as a result of smoking. This is not quite right. Around 15% of cancer cases are caused by smoking in the UK. But it does cause roughly one in four cancer deaths. One in four cancers are as a result of smoking The health secretary Steve Barclay told BBC Breakfast [video removed] and Sky News that smoking causes a quarter of all cancers. This is not quite right. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed with Full Fact that Mr Barclay had meant to say that smoking causes a quarter of deaths from cancer. This statistic appears in a Number 10 press statement and was cited on X (formerly Twitter) by the Prime Minister on the same day that Mr Barclay was speaking. A DHSC spokesperson said: “Smoking is the UK’s biggest preventable killer – causing around 1 in 4 cancer deaths and 64,000 in England alone.” In another recent estimate, Cancer Research UK has said that smoking causes slightly more than a quarter of all cancer deaths in the country, at 28%. Worldwide, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), an independent public health charity set up by the Royal College of Physicians, estimates that smoking causes about 22% of all cancer deaths. Smoking does cause a large proportion of the UK’s cancer cases. Cancer Research UK cites research suggesting that it amounts to about 15% in the UK. Ministers should take care to use statistics accurately. When mistakes are made, they should be corrected publicly as soon as possible. Image courtesy of Richard Townshend After we published this fact check, Mel Stride made this claim in Parliament, so we asked him to correct the record. Mel Stride issued a correction. Full Fact fights for good, reliable information in the media, online, and in politics.
schema:mentions	10 Downing Street Sky News Public health Smoking Parliament of the United Kingdom Prime Minister of the United Kingdom England Cancer Twitter United Kingdom dbpedia:Steve_Barclay_(politician) Full Fact BBC Breakfast Mel Stride Cancer Research UK dbpedia:Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care
schema:reviewRating	This is not quite right. Around 15% of cancer cases are caused by smoking in the UK. But it does cause roughly one in four cancer deaths.
schema:author	full-fact
schema:datePublished	2023-11-09 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
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