Smoking is responsible for premature deaths from tobacco-related disease, as well as smoking-related illness. Non-smokers are also at risk from exposure to second-hand smoke, which contributes to a range of serious and fatal diseases. In addition to the personal cost to individuals and families from smoking-related illness and death, the social costs of ill-health through smoking are significant for government, both in terms of treatment and care, and other consequences, such as loss of productivity, welfare payments, fires and litter.