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National Initiatives on Tobacco Control and Quitting Smoking
There are many government and non-government campaigns which give advice and encouragement to those thinking of quitting smoking, and aim to control the use of tobacco.
Follow the links below for more information about some of these national initiatives.
Reviewed May 2011
21 Resources Found
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| Title: | Media release. Online tobacco ads stubbed out |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The Senate passed legislation restricting online tobacco advertising in Australia on 8 February 2012. |
| Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Title: | Welcome to the Quitnow website |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | This is the web site of the Australian National Tobacco Campaign. The site is a one-stop-shop with all the information you need on the campaign and how to get information on quitting. |
| Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Title: | Media release. World-leading plain packaging legislation passes house of representatives |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The Australian Government' s world-leading plain packaging legislation has passed through the House of Representatives, as Australia moves one step closer to implementing plain packaging of tobacco from 1 January 2012. |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Does tobacco advertising and promotion make it more likely that adolescents will start to smoke |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Advertising is the use of media to create positive product imagery or associations. Promotion or marketing is the mix of activities designed to increase sales. There are no trials of the impact of tobacco advertising and promotional activities on people... |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Smoke-free kids |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | This topic is aimed at providing parents, grandparents and care-givers of children and young people with information about the impact of smoking, and passive smoking, on health. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Tobacco |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | Policy and programs to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms. |
| Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Title: | National Tobacco Strategy |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The National Tobacco Strategy is a policy framework for the Australian Government and state and territory governments to work together and in collaboration with non-government agencies to improve health and to reduce the social costs caused by tobacco. |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Media release: Plain tobacco packaging a winner with Australians: new poll |
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| Publisher: | The Cancer Council Australia |
| Description: | New research shows plain packaging of cigarettes is supported by the majority of Australians, despite the tobacco industry's continued attempts to undermine the groundbreaking health initiative. |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Plain packaging of tobacco products |
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| Publisher: | The Cancer Council Australia |
| Description: | Cancer Council Australia position statement on plain packaging of tobacco products |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Media release. Break the chain: Indigenous anti tobacco campaign kicks off |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | A new advertising campaign urging Indigenous Australians to quit smoking has hit the airwaves, newspapers and TV screens as the Australian Government continues its world-leading action to combat tobacco use. |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Tobacco - Education |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The history of the National Tobacco Campaign. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Preventative Health Taskforce |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The Taskforce will provide evidence-based advice to governments and health providers on preventative health programs and strategies, focusing on the burden of chronic disease currently caused by obesity, tobacco and the excessive consumption of alcohol. |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Are there any smoking cessation programmes which can help adolescents to stop smoking |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Worldwide, between 80,000 and 100,000 young people start smoking every day and up to one in four UK and American teenagers smoke. Many adolescent tobacco programmes focus on preventing teenagers from starting to smoke, but some programmes have been aime... |
| Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Title: | Tobacco laws aim to improve health |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | New laws in Victoria restrict advertising and displays of cigarettes and tobacco, ban or restrict smoking in certain venues, and provide for increased penalties for tobacco sales to minors and the possession of illegal tobacco. |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | Tobacco control in Australia: making smoking history |
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| Publisher: | National Preventative Health Taskforce |
| Description: | This paper presents the latest data on smoking in Australia. Building on extensive information compiled in the National Tobacco Strategy document released in 2004, it provides an update of research available since that time, and describes what has been done over the past four years and where Australia falls short of international best practice. |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Australia: the healthiest country by 2020: a discussion paper |
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| Publisher: | National Preventative Health Taskforce |
| Description: | The discussion paper outlines the case for reform in our approach to the prevention of illness and the promotion of health. The aim of this paper is to test our overall targets and the initial recommendations we have developed, in order to inform and provoke discussion and debate between Australians about how these targets can be achieved. |
| Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Title: | Trained community pharmacy personnel may be able to help people who wish to stop smoking |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Personnel in community pharmacies (drug stores) can be a source of information and support for people trying to quit smoking. They may have a role because nicotine replacement therapy, an effective cessation pharmacotherapy, is available without prescri... |
| Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Title: | Dangers of 'reduced-harm' cigarettes |
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| Publisher: | Cancer Council Australia |
| Description: | Cancer Council Australia position statement on the dangers of 'reduced-harm' cigarettes. |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Title: | Can community interventions reduce smoking among adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Although intervention communities often showed substantial awareness of their programme, this rarely led to higher quit rates. Similarly, increased knowledge of health risks, changes in attitudes to smoking, more quit attempts, and better environmental ... |
| Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Title: | What's new in smoking cessation? |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | Tobacco smoking is the main preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in Australia. Recently published evidence-based guidelines for general practitioners recommend the 5As framework which is consistent with other international guidelines. |
| Date: | Jun 2005 |
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