Smoking kills half of all Indigenous Australian adults, 'more in the NT', study shows

By Roxanne Fitzgerald
Updated January 26 2021 - 7:23am, first published 7:21am
Smoking causes 50 per cent of deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults aged 45 years and over, and 37 per cent of deaths at any age, according to a new research from The Australian National University. Picture: Andres Simon.
Smoking causes 50 per cent of deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults aged 45 years and over, and 37 per cent of deaths at any age, according to a new research from The Australian National University. Picture: Andres Simon.

Researchers have found half of all Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people over the age of 45 are dying from smoking related diseases, but in the Northern Territory the statistics could be much more dire.

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