Sentence examples for indigenous smoking from inspiring English sources

"Despite the fact that Indigenous smoking rates are improving, they are not improving at the same rate as non-indigenous Australians, so the gap is widening across a number of indicators," said Tim Beard, a spokesman for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Despite this, there is a lack of published research which qualitatively explores the social context of Indigenous smoking behaviour or of meanings and perceptions of smoking among Indigenous people.

The focus on Indigenous smoking remained unchanged.

Of particular note is that many Cancer Councils have been engaged in advocacy around Indigenous smoking in a variety of ways for many years.

These results from interviews with local and operational-level participants indicate that current tobacco policies in Australia targeting Indigenous smoking are sound and comprehensive.

This reflects the fact that Indigenous smoking prevalence is double non-Indigenous prevalence and smoking in many Indigenous families and communities remains a normative social practice [ 19, 33].

Bivariate analysis revealed a statistically significant difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous smoking status at the antenatal hospital booking visit (community based antenatal care is provided and women are referred for a hospital booking at approximately 17 24 weeks gestation) (48.9% vs. 19.2%; difference 30.0%, 95% CI 27.2, 32.3%).

While there is a growing body of research on Indigenous Australian smoking, particularly in remote communities, we are unaware of any work specifically examining the social context of smoking or its initiation by Aboriginal women in rural Australia, where 43% of the Indigenous population live [ 38].

Indigenous status, smoking and symptoms were self-reported.

However, this is not the case for all population groups with 46percentnt of Indigenous Australians smoking on a daily basis, more than double the rate of non-Indigenous Australians [ 1].

Although requiring confirmation, this suggests that contemporary antismoking programs are relatively ineffective in indigenous patients contemplating smoking for the first time.