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Four reasons the Australian government should consider litigation against tobacco companies

  • Written by Ross MacKenzie, Lecturer in Health Studies, Macquarie University
imageSmoking costs taxpayers more than $30 billion annually, should tobacco companies foot the bill?from www.shutterstock.com

While Australia’s impressive record of tobacco control legislation has seen the national daily smoking rate fall from 24% in the early 90s to 12.2% in 2016, there’s still more that could be done.

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