Scare tactics cut smoking rates in Australia to all time low

Australia's smoking rate, which was stalled throughout the 1990s with around 25%of adults found in several surveys to be smoking, has recommenced its downward slide. The national prevalence of adult smoking has now fallen to 22%the lowest figure ever recorded. Australia, like the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States had experienced a decade long lull in its decline in the prevalence of smoking. On World …