LATEST NEWS | Kick The Butt 
Shaun Burgoyne from the Hawthorn Fottball Club is encouraging people to kick the butt in this new ad campaign. The website features videos, games and information on where to go for support with your quitting. | Living Black Season 18 episode 5- Quit Smoking 
The man in charge of a national effort to reduce Indigenous smoking
rates says that while the number of Aboriginal smokers has steadily
declined there's still a long way to go. Laura Murphy- Oates has more.
Living Black: Tuesday 7:30pm on NITV. http://www.sbs.com.au/livingblack
| ABC NEWS: Calls for renewed funds on Close the Gap Day Aboriginal leaders are using today's seventh national Close the Gap Day
to call for a funding boost to ensure a national initiative aimed at
improving Indigenous health continues. | | Rewrite Your Story is a campaign that does just that–
through the smoking stories of 16 local Ambassadors. The stories aim to
inspire others to re-write their own story and help make our mob’s
future smoke free. 
The campaign has been developed by the Puiyurti (Don’t Smoke) team at Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc, in partnership with Give Up Smokes For Good, Aboriginal Health Council of SA, Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service, and Cancer Council SA. | Is Deadly Dan the Smoke-free Man coming to a town near you?
Click here for more details | No Smokes...is a new tobacco resistance website aimed at young people which features lots of information, videos and fun activities 
Visit website | New Blow Away the Smokes project launched in NSWRead more New South Australian GIVE UP SMOKES FOR GOOD campaign website launched which uses 12 local role models to spread the smokefree message 
| Read 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
| WatchIHHP - Timber Creek - All my people
Katherine West Health Board together with Indigenous Hip Hop Projects worked with the people of Timbet Creek and Myatt communities to develop this smoking education and prevention video clip.
'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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DID YOU KNOW? |
TRAINING CEITC is inviting Aboriginal health services to host a 2-day Tobacco Action training workshop. More information | Closing the Gap- Prime Minister's Report 2013 Julia Gillard has released a report outlining the most recent progress made towards meeting the six targets set out in the 2008 Close the Gap framework. The report shows progress in many areas as well as some regress and areas that require greater attention if we are to reach the targets within the original time frame. Read the report here. Watch segments of Julia Gillard's and Tony Abbott's addresses to parliament here.
| NEW TOBACCO RESISTANCE TOOL KIT AND TRAINING FOR PEOPLE IN NSW The Aboriginal Tobacco Resistance Tool Kit was developed by the AHMRC ATRAC team to meet the growing need for practical support around tobacco resistance and control by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) in NSW. More information | 
New fact sheet on childhood tobacco exposure from ASH Australia Download |
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 Read article |
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 |
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