Population Health and Strategic Direction

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The Impact of Tobacco Smoking in Western Sydney presents information on the human and financial cost of tobacco smoking in Western Sydney.
Despite progress in combating the epidemic of tobacco smoking there is evidence for a trend to a plateau and perhaps increase in smoking exposure in younger age-groups and for lower than desirable rates of smoking cessation in Western Sydney.
The human and financial cost of tobacco smoking in Western Sydney is substantial. Tobacco attributable mortality rates are higher in the former Western Sydney Area Health Service (WSAHS) residents that in NSW overall. In Western Sydney the cost of tobacco attributable illness amounts to almost $20 million per year in hospital costs alone.

1. TOC

2. Contents

3. Executive Summary

4. Methods: the impact of tobacco smoking in WSAHS

5. Prevalence

6. Overall change in the past decade

7. Age and sex specific smoking status, 1989/90 and 1997

8. Incidence of lung cancer

9. Smoking and socio-economic status

10. Tobacco related mortality and morbidity

11. Hospital cost and utilisation

12. Tobacco smoking among adolescents

13. Summary and conclusions

14. References