![]() ![]() ![]() After all: one doesn’t smoke to be healthy. However, reducing smoking is easier said than done. “It’s important that Quit campaigns and health professionals target their messaging to specific communities where smoking rates remain stubbornly high.” We also know that the best way to stop children picking up the habit is to support the adults around them to quit smoking.” Health Policy Lead at the Mitchell Institute Ben Harris said this came down to local factors: “We know where we live, where we work and who we know influences smoking. “Our success is lauded internationally, and we have some of the lowest smoking rates in the world… However, our national success story hides some troubling local data.”Ĭompare this again to Inner Sydney, which has some of the lowest smoking rates in the country, and well off areas like Mosman, Lane Cove and Ku-ring-gai, whose populations smoke at half the national average rate, and a stark difference becomes apparent. According to the think tank, this means around one in seven people in these regions will die of an illness caused by smoking. They found that, along with Tamworth (where 30.3% of people smoke regularly), 31.3% of Mount Druitt residents enjoy a daily durrie.Ĭompared to the national average of 14%, which neither town is expected to reach for the next 31 years, this is quite the problem.
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