Illicit Tobacco Ladder Exposes Growing Gap between Leaders and Laggards The Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH) today released Round Two of the 2026 National Illicit Tobacco Ladder, ranking every state, territory and the Commonwealth on tackling the...
Cheaper Cigarettes Will Kill More Australians – Open Letter to Australia’s Political Leaders Over 30 of Australia’s leading peak health bodies, alongside doctors, nurses and community advocates, have today written to every federal parliamentarian urging them to reject...
Coalition policy gives tobacco companies a tax cut, risks fuelling nicotine addiction The Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH) which includes Australia’s major health organisations, is deeply concerned that the illicit tobacco crisis is being used as a...
Senate Report on Illicit Trade Falls Short of a Lasting Solution & Raises Red Flags The Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH) welcomes parts of the Senate Inquiry report released on Friday, including its recognition that stronger enforcement and...
One Nation wants to hand Big Tobacco a tax break What would you do if you ran a cigarette company and your business model, like your customers, was diseased and dying? If you’d seen your market shrink as smoking rates declined, and you were massively undercut by...
Fewer Australians smoking, but illicit trade needs tougher measures New data from the 2025 National Drug Strategy Household Survey show that daily smoking among Australians aged 14 and over fell to 5.6% in 2025—down from 8.3% in 2022–23 and 19.5% in 2001—while daily...
