WA has an enviable reputation when it comes to combatting one of the biggest health scourges of modern time – smoking. But has it lost its edge?
By Cathy O’Leary
Western Australia has long been recognised as a world-leader in tobacco control, adding its own weight to efforts at a national level to stub out smoking.
Its playlist has included graphic public education campaigns showing surgical removal of a smoker’s larynx, backed up by law reforms that have progressively restricted how cigarettes can be advertised, sold and used....
By Cathy O’Leary
Western Australia has long been recognised as a world-leader in tobacco control, adding its own weight to efforts at a national level to stub out smoking.
Its playlist has included graphic public education campaigns showing surgical removal of a smoker’s larynx, backed up by law reforms that have progressively restricted how cigarettes can be advertised, sold and used....
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