Brief description
Tobacco smoking is one of the largest preventable causes of death and disease in Australia. In 2017-18, 13.8% of adults aged 18 years and over were daily smokers (2.6 million people), down from 14.5% in 2014-15. The decrease is a continuation of the trend over the past two decades, in 1995, 23.8% of adults were daily smokers.Additionally the proportion of adults who have never smoked is increasing over time, from 49.4% in 2007-08 to 52.6% in 2014-15 and 55.7% in 2017-18.
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Age-standardised prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older - Smoking Prevalence of Current Smoker aged 15 years and older between 2011/12 and 2017/18 (%)\r\n\r\nTobacco smoking is one of the largest preventable causes of death and disease in Australia. In 2017-18, 13.8% of adults aged 18 years and over were daily smokers (2.6 million people), down from 14.5% in 2014-15. The decrease is a continuation of the trend over the past two decades, in 1995, 23.8% of adults were daily smokers. \r\n\r\nAdditionally the proportion of adults who have never smoked is increasing over time, from 49.4% in 2007-08 to 52.6% in 2014-15 and 55.7% in 2017-18.Spatial Coverage And Location
text: Australia
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- Local : tobacco-use-among-young-persons
- URI : data.gov.au/data/dataset/20d7cb5e-c0c3-44fb-ac16-a4fa7ea78d00