However, it is estimated that each year more than 13,000 people in Scotland die from smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke (figures taken from The UK Smoking Epidemic; deaths in 1995).From estimates made for the United Kingdom as a whole by the Independent Expert Committee on Medical Effects of Air Pollutants, it is estimated that the number of deaths in Scotland brought forward by exposure to particulate, sulphur dioxide and ozone in ambient air is about 2,000 per year.