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The progress of tobacco control in Western Australia: achievements, challenges and hopes for the future

A collaborative effort of some of the states’ leading public health experts, The progress of tobacco control in Western Australia: achievements, challenges and hopes for the future (pdf 2.3mb) chronicles the last 25 years of tobacco control in WA, the victories, losses and lessons learnt.

Chapters include:

Changes in use of tobacco and attitudes towards smoking
What smoking has cost the community over the decades and savings that have been made through fewer people smoking
Efforts to stop kids taking up the habit
The contribution of scientists to debate on the harms of smoking and need for regulation of the industry and smoking in public places and workplaces
Shifts in the WA media’s treatment of the industry and smoking
The skirmishes between advocates, politicians and the industry over legislation and funding for public education campaigns on smoking
The role of Healthway in boosting efforts to make smoking history
The next wave of measures for bringing an end to smoking

The book was launched by Professor Bruce Armstrong, an internationally renown West Australian cancer epidemiologist and longstanding and prominent campaigner for tobacco control.

In launching the book, Professor Armstrong reflected on the changes in smoking over the years, past skirmishes with the industry, and thrills and disappointments encountered in rallying community and political action on smoking.

“Tremendous progress has been made in reducing the use and harms caused by tobacco in Western Australia. Today, more people are living longer and healthier lives because they quit smoking or never started, and pressures on the health system are less than they would have been if smoking had remained unchecked.”

“The Department of Health estimates that tobacco control measures introduced since the mid-1980s over a 20-year period have helped avert 876 deaths, 22,527 hospitalisations and $116 million in hospital costs.”

“In years to come I hope we will be celebrating further successes in reducing smoking especially among Indigenous communities, the mentally ill and other disadvantaged groups – and that an end to smoking is truly in sight.”

“This book captures an important era in public health in this State. It shows clearly what can be achieved when public health advocates and the community work together, and hopefully it will inspire colleagues battling other equally intractable health issues.”

The progress of tobacco control in Western Australia: achievements, challenges and hopes for the future (Cancer Council WA, hard copy $35: Ordering information pdf 243kb).