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Why we need tobacco sales data for good tobacco control
Author(s) -
Gartner Coral E,
Chapman Simon F,
Hall Wayne D,
Wakefield Melanie A
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03389.x
Subject(s) - population , library science , population health , tobacco control , public health , sociology , medicine , media studies , demography , nursing , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 4 January 2010 192 1 3-4©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010www.mja.com.auEditorialshe prevalence of smoking in Australia is among the lowestfor high-income countries. In 2007, 17.9% of Australiansaged 14 years or older were current smokers, comparedwith 23.6% in 1998. Yet tobacco remains Australia’s leading riskfactor for premature death and disability, accounting for 7.8% ofthe total disease burden,