Published: August 27, 2018
We need a national approach and more than tokenistic funding in order to deliver real change
Up to three times as many Australian women have experienced family violence than are current smokers. It is both a credit to the success of the 30-year old quit smoking strategy and a damning indictment of the decades of “turning a blind eye” to family violence in our community.
The national tobacco control strategy has shown us that a sustained and relentless national investment and focus on public education, social change campaigns, regulation and legislative reform can deliver systemic change in community behaviour. In the case of Quit, it has led to a 60% decline in smoking rates since 1985.
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