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At Quit Smoking in 60 Minutes we cover the following areas in the south of Brisbane.:

Capalaba, Birkdale, Wynnum, Manly, Gumdale,

Carina, Carindale, Coorparoo, White Hills, Wellington Point,

Victoria Point, Thornside, Redland Bay, Rochedale, Springwood,

Daisy Hill, Cornubia, Mt Cotton

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Steve Gardiner is unique in that he is an internationally recognised expert in the growing and curing of tobacco. Now, it is his passion to help people to Quit Smoking permanently and take back control of their lives.

Steve’s background enables him to understand […]

Smoking Statistics for Australia

Around the middle of the last century, a clear majority of males aged 16 and over were smokers, compared to about one quarter of females (Table 1.1). In the following decades smoking among men declined, probably in response to the initial publicity regarding the health effects of smoking which first emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s. Women have always had a lower prevalence of smoking than men, but smoking among women continued to increase in the 1970s.
Percentage of Smokers in Australia 1945 – 1976
Year Male Female
1945 72 26
1964 58 28
1969 45 28
1974 45 30
1976 43 33

Smoking in both sexes declined from 1980 to 2007, the most dramatic drop being in males […]

The History of Tobacco Smoking in Australia

Tobacco smoking first reached Australian shores when it was introduced to northern-dwelling Indigenous communities by visiting Indonesian fishermen in the early 1700s. British patterns of tobacco use were transported to Australia along with the new settlers in 1788. Among free settlers, officers and convicts, tobacco smoking was widespread and in the years following colonisation, British smoking behavior was rapidly adopted by Indigenous people as well.
In the earliest days of the colony the tobacco supply was unreliable and usage among convicts, in particular, was restricted, but by the early 1800s tobacco was an essential commodity routinely issued to servants, prisoners and […]