Daily Mail claims smoking will kill more people than live in the UK

They've gone too far. We know how much they love cancer scare stories, but this is ridiculous. For this Daily Mail story today, the headline claims that smoking will claim a hundred million lives in the UK. That's more than the actual population of the UK. The first paragraph of the story clarifies the situation. The Royal College of Physicians has said that 100 million years of life will be lost - averaging out at 10 years per smoker.

Even a cursory read of the story, or an ounce of common sense, should have pointed out that this headline is somewhat wide of the mark.