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Smoking kills half of all Indigenous Australians over 45, a new study has found – SBS News
Researchers have found that Indigenous Australians are dying of tobacco-related illness and disease at almost twice the rate than was previously thought.
As many as half of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people over the age of 45 are dying from smoking-related illness, a new study has found, as experts concede it is a bigger problem than previously thought.
About 37 per cent of all deaths among the Indigenous Australian population are caused by smoking, according to the study, which was led by researchers at the Australian National University.
The study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology on Monday, is the first of…
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