In the East, among the 455,000 households that include an adult smoker, 158,000 (35%) are below the poverty line, according to an anti-smoking organization Action on Smoking and Health.

Boston Standard reported that poverty can be lifted out from an estimated 36,000 households if they quit smoking. Around 96,000 people including 25,000 children and 15,000 pensioners is composing these households. A smoker on average spends £2,158 a year on tobacco.

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These figures are now published with a health inequalities toolkit. This toolkit advises local authorities and the NHS on how to reduce smoking rates on areas that have health inequalities.

During the teenage years is the start of smoking of most people. After one year, 85% would admit of difficulty in quitting. It would take many times for smokers to quit before they can be successful. But for those who live in communities with high rates in smoking and highly addictive is faced with these barriers that make smokers unsuccessful and often need more support than others.

Smoking has a big impact on health both physically and mentally for service users, according to Diane Prescott of the Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor John Moxham of Respiratory Medicine at King's College London School of Medicine said that one of the major reasons that people who are poor get sick easily and die younger is smoking which is disproportionately affecting the most disadvantaged society. Smokers become more highly addicted that contributes to ongoing poverty.

Moxham also mentioned that local authorities should have the government helping them to end these unacceptable inequalities.

Consultant Dr. Sanjay Agrawal in Respiratory Medicine at University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust claimed that local services are in burden and the local economy is negatively impacted of the financial pressure smoking is in poorer families. He also claimed that their services will not only save lives but also bring money back into the poorest households in the community. 

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