The promotion of smoking by tobacco companies targeting Indigenous Australians has been labelled “disgusting” and “inappropriate” by Health Minister Greg Hunt.
Mr Hunt said smoking rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were three times that of the national average during a press conference in Mount Martha in Victoria on Monday.
According to The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s 17th biennial report Australia’s Health 2000 released earlier this year, tobacco smoking is the leading cause of ill health and death in Australia for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The latest figures from the AIHW showed the percentage of non-Indigenous Australians who smoked was 14.4, while the number for Indigenous Australians was 41.4 per cent.
The funding is part of the government’s commitment to reduce smoking rates among Indigenous Australians to 27 per cent or less by 2030.
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