Technical Paper 2:
Tobacco Control in Australia: making smoking history
3.5 - Tailor messages and services for highly disadvantaged groups
- Overview and summary of action proposed
- Summary of proposed measures
- 1 - Introduction: the big picture
2 - Progress in meeting National Tobacco Strategy objectives: trends and concerns
3 - Progress in Australia on recommended policies and programs- 3.1 - Regulate
- 3.2 - Public education: Increase promotion of Quit and smoke-free messages
- 3.3 - Improve services and treatment for smokers
- 3.4 - Better support families and educators
- 3.5 - Tailor messages and services for highly disadvantaged groups
- 3.6 - Address causes of disadvantage
- 3.7 - Improve focus in research, monitoring and evaluation
- 4 - What next, what first and for what cost?
- Major sources used in this document
- References
- Addendum for October 2008 to June 2009
Several groups in Australia have needs that are unlikely to be adequately met by mainstream services. Special challenges need to be addressed in tackling smoking in Indigenous communities.
People in institutions such as psychiatric hospitals and correctional facilities lack access to mainstream services, and often smoke at very high rates. Greatly reducing or eliminating spending on tobacco products could well assist with efforts to gain secure housing and employment once they have left institutional care. Several small initiatives targeting highly disadvantaged groups are in place in various jurisdictions and sectors in Australia, but no services are uniformly available across the country.