THE Federal Govt target of reducing the number of daily smokers to below 5% of the population by 2030 is in danger of stalling, if more is not done to stop new generations, shows modelling by researchers from several universities, who have access to 50 years of smoking data.
Dr Mariana Weber from the Daffodil Centre, the cancer control and policy body, explained, "we found that if trends in smoking uptake and smoking cessation stagnate, the smoking prevalence is unlikely to reach 5% until 2066.
"And the study showed that even if everyone who was born after 2010 didn't smoke, we still fall short of the target."
The reason is, Dr Weber explains, until recently, "we haven't had a National Tobacco strategy & might have become complacent about past success."
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