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Expert fumes over NT smoking policy  

The Territory Government's policies on smoking have come under fire from the president of the Australian Council on Smoking and Health.

Professor Mike Daube is also a member of the Preventative Health Task Force set up by the Federal Government, which will hand a report to the Commonwealth next week on preventing chronic illness caused by smoking, obesity and alcohol.

It is still legal to smoke in bars in the Territory, although a ban will come into place next year. . . .

"The reality is that the Territory Government's attitudes to tobacco over the years have been a disgrace.

"They lag so far behind the other states and territories that they should be asking themselves why they're allowing so many needless deaths."

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