Top Australian News Stories on Tobacco

This hub highlights leading news stories concerning tobacco in Australia and select stories about smoking from around the world.

An excellent resource for the latest stories on tobacco, both locally and internationally, can be found at Tobacco BBS (TBBS), a news service produced by Gene Borio. Click here if you would like to go directly to the Australian news link on TBBS.

Online newspapers regularly archive their stories. The two major publishers of newspapers in Australia, News Limited and Fairfax, have fee-based digital archive services available.

News Limited has a text-based digital archives that includes News Corporation's newspapers in Australia, such as The Australian, The Adelaide Advertiser, The Courier Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Hobart Mercury and The Herald Sun.

The F2 Network News Store provides an online searchable archive to Fairfax publications from 1990 to present. Fairfax newspapers include The Age, The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. To access the New Store, click here.

In addition to this, the State Library of New South Wales has an online index available to articles about Australia and Australians published in the Sydney Morning Herald and associated publications: Sun Herald, Eastern Herald, Northern Herald and Good Weekend from 1988 onwards. There is substantial coverage on tobacco. The index is called INFOQUICK.