ABS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) : Australia, 2004-2005
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) surveyed around 1 in 45 Indigenous persons between August 2004 and July 2005. The data collected includes health risk factors. One in two (50%) of Indigenous adults were daily smokers, that is, people who smoked one or more cigarettes per day, on average. This is about twice the rate of non-Indigenous adults and the ABS reports that there has been little change in the rate of smoking by Indigenous people since 1995. For both men and women, smoking was more prevalent among Indigenous than non-Indigenous adults in every age group. Click here to view the summary of results report. Click here for links to State and Territory results.

Submission to the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Tobacco Control Project
The submission was made by The Cancer Council Australia, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH) and the VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control (VCTC).

Tobacco: Time for Action
Final report of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tobacco Control Project, released on 31 May 2002. The key recommendation is the immediate implementation of a nationally coordinated tobacco control program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.