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Smoking and Health
 | Tobacco is the only consumer product that kills people when used as the manufacturer intends |
It is now well understood that smoking is harmful to peoples’ health. Smoking causes many cancers, heart disease and stroke and is responsible for 5 million deaths in the world every year.
Australia has been at the forefront of tobacco control having developed many innovative strategies to both reduce the number of people that start smoking and increase the number of people to stop smoking.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people however continue to smoke at over twice the rate of the Australian population in general. That means that most people in our communities either are smokers themselves or live with someone who smokes. It is therefore important that we continue to reinforce the message that smoking is harmful and most smokers will suffer some form of disease leading to early death.
