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The huge public health challenge around premature deaths from smoking, obesity and alcohol
British Heart Foundation Cymru says Wales must take action now to ensure the health inequality gap is not widened
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Tobacco costs the Welsh NHS an estimated £386m per year (Image: Unsplash)
British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cymru is calling for action to tackle premature deaths from chronic diseases.
Heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lung disease and complications because of diabetes cause more than half of all deaths in Wales.
This is at least 20,000 every year.
They are known as non-communicable diseases (or NCDs) and many of these deaths could be prevented if more was done to reduce the numbers of people who are overweight or have obesity, who smoke, and who drink more than the recommended amount of alcohol.
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