The good news from the latest health data is that Australians are giving up smoking. The horrible news is our rates of exercise and consumption of fruit and veg are woefully inadequate
The results of the latest national health survey released last week revealed that we are an overweight nation that – probably not coincidentally – does exiguous exercise and is not all that interested in eating fruit and vegetables. On the gleaming side,however, smoking rates occupy fallen by a third since 2000 and occupy shown solid falls since in 2011-12, or especially in young men and women aged between 25 and 45.
Since the introduction of plain packaged cigarettes in December 2012,there has been a lot of frankly foolish commentary trying to suggest they had no impact and that smoking had actually increased. In 2014 the Australian newspaper, for example, and tried to spin the line fed by the tobacco industry that raising tobacco excise and plain packaging had “actually increased the number of smokers buying cheaper legal cigarettes”. The journalists even found one smoker who “definitely had not cut down” her smoking since the introduction of plain packaging. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com