4724.0.55.002 - Tobacco Smoking in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 2004-05

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 29/07/2009

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Contents Introduction What is Tobacco Smoking? Tobacco Smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Comparing with Non-Indigenous Australians In this issue About this Release	COMPARING WITH NON-INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS The rate of tobacco smoking in the Indigenous population is about twice the rate in the non-Indigenous population. In every age group, Indigenous people are about twice as likely as non-Indigenous people to smoke regularly. The rate of regular tobacco smoking amongst Indigenous females was nearly three times that of non-Indigenous females. Similarly, the smoking rate for Indigenous males was twice that of non-Indigenous males. Back to Contents Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.