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1.1 A brief history of tobacco smoking in Australia

1.2 Overview of major Australian data sets

1.3 Prevalence of smoking—adults

1.4 Prevalence of smoking—young adults

1.5 Prevalence of smoking—middle-aged and older adults

1.6 Prevalence of smoking—secondary students

1.7 Trends in the prevalence of smoking by socioeconomic status

1.8 Trends in prevalence of smoking by country of birth

1.9 Prevalence of tobacco use among Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders

1.10 Prevalence of smoking in other high risk sub-groups of the population

1.11 Prevalence of use of different types of tobacco product

1.12 Future smoking rates?

1.13 International comparisons of prevalence of smoking

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We are grateful to Professor Melanie Wakefield, Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, the Cancer Council of Victoria, for her review of this chapter. Dr Coral Gartner, post-doctoral research fellow within the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, and Ms Michelle Scollo, senior consultant to the Tobacco Control Unit, the Cancer Council Victoria, provided additional advice and assistance during the preparation of this chapter.

The confidentialised unit record files for the National Drug Strategy Household Survey datasets were provided by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the Department of Health and Ageing and the Australian Social Science Data Archive; however these entities bear no responsibility for the analyses presented within this publication or interpretation of them.