Tobacco Smoking

In a recent study done by the Family Medicine Research Centre, there are 22% of adults that are 15 years old and up that smoke. According to the study, that over half of these people that smoke will eventually die from tobacco related deaths like cancer. According to this study, smoking tobacco is the leading cause to ill health, drug related death, and hospital separations in Australia. A study was done that recorded from April 2012 through March 2013.

In the study, they found that out 32,276 patients from the age of 18 and up, that over half of them never smoked. A quarter were previous smokers. 3% of the patients were occassional smokers and 17% said that they were daily smokers. There were 62% of females that said that they had never smoked; wheras, there was 44% of males that said that they never smoked. The study shows that men are more likely to smoke and that there are far more men that smoke than women. The study also broke down the patients into age groups and they found out that the greater portion of daily smokers were from the ages of 25-44. That percentage was at 22%. In the age group of 65-74, they found that only 8% smoke. In that study, they found out that only 4% were daily users. Also, they found that people who spoke English were more likely to smoke than people who didn't speak English. When performing th study, they found that people who lived in cities were less likely to smoke than people who lived in the country. There statistists were: in the city 16%, in regional areas 20%, and remote areas 26%.

Charles Janice, Valenti Lisa, and Helena Britt (June, 2014). Tobacco Smoking. Focus: Addictions. Retrieved from: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1539266874/fulltextPDF?accountid=12085