WA’s smoking success story threatened by vapes

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....

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