Tobacco and the law
Which do you think kills more Australians?
a) alcohol and other drugs
b) murder
c) being late for dinner
d) car crashes
e) smoking
The answer is ‘e’, smoking. In fact smoking kills more Australians than all of the above put together - ok, except 'being late for dinner' as we don't have any stats on that.
If smoking is so dangerous, why aren’t there laws against it? Well, actually there are! In Australia there are federal and state laws that aim to reduce the amount of harm done by smoking tobacco.
For more information check out Tobacco and the law in Australia fact sheet (PDF 450kb)
The following links provide more information about some of the laws around tobacco advertising, sales, packaging, littering, and public areas.