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Graphic ad joins the quit campaign 

As another graphic quit-smoking commercial hits television screens across NSW, the state government says higher tobacco taxes would make smoking even "more difficult".

At the launch of the new advertising campaign in Sydney on Saturday, NSW Assistant Health Minister Verity Firth said tobacco tax was a federal government issue and not something the state could control.

However, she said, higher taxes on cigarettes was something she would gladly discuss with her federal counterparts and, when pressed, said a tax hike would have positive outcomes.

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