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Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older

Created 31/05/2018

Updated 10/08/2023

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Tobacco smoking is one of the largest preventable causes of death and disease in Australia. In 2017-18, 13.8% of adults aged 18 years and over were daily smokers (2.6 million people), down from 14.5% in 2014-15. The decrease is a continuation of the trend over the past two decades, in 1995, 23.8% of adults were daily smokers.

Additionally the proportion of adults who have never smoked is increasing over time, from 49.4% in 2007-08 to 52.6% in 2014-15 and 55.7% in 2017-18.

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Title Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/20d7cb5e-c0c3-44fb-ac16-a4fa7ea78d00
Contact Point
Sustainable Development Goals
healthreporting@health.gov.au
Reference Period 31/05/2018
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Data.gov.au