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The number of hospital admissions attributable to smoking has fallen by 18 per cent since 2004, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre. In 2004/5 there were 559,800 admissions estimated to be attributable to smoking for adults aged 35 years or over but by 2012/13 that figure had dropped to 460,900. Of these some 131,000 admissions were for a respiratory disease, 134,300 for a circulatory disease and 156,600 had a primary diagnosis of cancer.