Jump to full article: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (au), 2009-06-24
Intro: 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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