British women have the second shortest lifespan in Western Europe due to boozing and heavy smoking, experts reveal

Females in the UK are expected to live three years less than those in Spain, with only Denmark having a worse record
Poorer countries such as Slovenia and recession-hit Greece has a longer life-expectancy than in Britain.
Figures show the average lifespan for a British woman is 82 years and nine months, compared with 85 years and nine months in Spain.
Experts warned binge-drinking and smoking as well as overeating was the reason British women are living shorter lives than most of our European neighbours.
Diseases including cancer, chronic respiratory disease and dementia are said to be the main causes of premature death, white cirrhosis of the liver is above average in this country, the report said.
But British men are above the average life expectancy at 79 years and two months, and sit 10th in the EU table after France, but before Austria, Denmark and Belgium.
Professor Peter Goldblatt, of University College London’s Institute for Health Equity, said British women were liberated from domestic life earlier and took up smoking sooner.
For that reason, he says that rates of lung cancer and respiratory diseases in women soared and pulled down today’s life expectancy predictions, which are based on current mortality rates.
Heavy drinking is also a growing threat to women’s health and “baby boomer” females to drink more than their mothers, according to Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, of the Alcohol Health Alliance.
He told the newspaper: “Drinking about a bottle of wine a week will increase a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer by about 10 per cent.”