Amid high cigarette prices Tjuntjuntjarra locals call for help for smokers to quit

Michael Stevens has gone a long time without a cigarette.

The Spinifex man has worked as a health practitioner in the remote community of Tjuntjuntjara, 1,300 kilometres east of Perth, for a decade.

Among the countless challenges he faces — from resourcing, to chronic illnesses, to his vehicles’…