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New Blow Away the Smokes project launched in NSW
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New South Australian GIVE UP SMOKES FOR GOOD campaign website launched which uses 12 local role models to spread the smokefree message

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Maternal smoking and smoking in the household during pregnancy and postpartum: findings from an Indigenous cohort in the Northern Territory
by Vanessa Johnston, David P Thomas, Joseph McDonnell and Ross M Andrews 

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'Blow Away the Smokes' 
In this colourful and informative documentary, presenter Alec Doomadgee meets with smokers, ex-smokers and health professionals to talk about how to quit smoking cigarettes. Along the way, Alec finds out some of the support, methods and medications available to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people “blow away the smokes”.

Smoking No Good Aye video from Gippsland in Victoria

Breathe Strong: Tackling Smoking in Indigenous Communities
Join Mary G, Queen of the Kimberley, as she tackles the issues and shows us what different communities are doing to quit smoking and “break the chain”.

Produced by Rural Health Education Foundation

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Check out our smoking information booklets

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CEITC fact sheet series

Fact sheets on a range of issues about tobacco use among Indigenous Australians

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Galnya Angin Newsletter

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Talkin' Up Good Air

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Free Tobacco Control Services in SW QLD

I-Quitt is offering tobacco control services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in South West Queensland free of charge.

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Read about the Australian Government's "National Action to reduce the Indigenous Smoking rate".

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'Get Active - Eat Good Tucker - Live Longer' launches a new 'Community Health Action Pack'

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New Zealand plans to go smoke-free by 2025

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As of December 1, 2008, free or subsidised (subject to conditions) Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) is available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders through the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) under the Closing the Gap Indigenous Chronic Disease Package.

Individuals are able to obtain 2 courses of NRT (Nicorette,15 mg per 16 hours) of up to 12 weeks duration per year on a prescription provided by their doctor.

PBS co-patient measure information

Read more about the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package