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Smoking rates fall to historic low across Australia despite the rise of illicit tobacco (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Wurzl@lemmy.zip to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] eureka@aussie.zone 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The survey also found that current vaping among 18-to-24-year-olds fell from a high of 20.6% in 2022–23 to 14%, while daily vaping remained stable across all age groups. This differed from previous surveys which reported rising vaping rates.

That's good to see, it's already concerningly normalised in a couple of my social circles.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Same here, and this is with mid-30s who should know better. One has just quit though (maybe due to having children recently) so I hope the others will follow his lead.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Big Tobacco corporations and their executives can go eat a bullet.

Well done to anyone who has given up tobacco to fuck over the profits of the pathetic creatures running these businesses.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Mum smoked a pack (of 25s) per day in the 80's. That habit would cost over $100/wk these days. I presume some of the drop is simply that smoking is too expensive these days.