Tobacco use
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Key references compiled from our bibliographic database that address tobacco use among Indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are provided here.
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Key references
2006
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (2006) Tobacco smoking
in Australia: a snapshot, 2004-05. Canberra: Australian
Bureau of Statistics
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View website: Australian Bureau of Statistics - Health DI, Panaretto K, Manessis V, Larkins S, Malouf
P, et al. (2006) Factors to consider in smoking interventions
for Indigenous women. Australian Journal of Primary
Health;12(2):131-136
View abstract: Australian Journal of Primary Health
View website: Australian Journal of Primary Health - Ivers RG, Castro A, Parfitt D, Bailie RS, d'Abbs PH, et al. (2006) Evaluation of a multi-component community tobacco intervention in three remote Australian Aboriginal communities.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;30(2):132-136
View abstract: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
View website: Public Health Association of Australia - Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2006) National
Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: action plan. Canberra:
Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 823KB)
(This report replaces the 2003-2006 edition)
View website: National Drug Strategy - Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2006) National
Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: background paper.
Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 498KB)
(This report replaces the 2003-2006 edition)
View website: National Drug Strategy
2005
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare (2005) Health and welfare of Australia's
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2005.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and
the Australian Bureau of Statistics
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View Chapter 8: Health risk factors (PDF - 308KB)
View report (PDF - 5.22MB - large file warning!)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Clough AR (2005) Associations between tobacco and cannabis
use in remote Indigenous populations in Northern Australia.
Addiction;100(3):346-353
View HealthInfoNet abstract - Drug and Alcohol Office (2005) Strong spirit, strong
mind: Western Australian Aboriginal Alcohol and Other Drugs
Plan 2005-2009. Perth: Drug and Alcohol Office, Government
of Western Australia
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View website: Drug and Alcohol Office - Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2005) National
Tobacco Strategy, 2004-2009: the strategy. Canberra:
Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 310KB)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing
2004
- Gilchrist D, Woods B, Binns CW, Scott JA, Gracey M, et al. (2004)
Aboriginal mothers, breastfeeding and smoking. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;28(3):225-228
View abstract: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
View website: Public Health Association of Australia - Ivers R (2004) An evidence-based approach to planning tobacco interventions for Aboriginal people. Drug and Alcohol Review;23(1):5-9
View abstract
View website: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Rowland B, Toumborurou JW (2004) Preventing drug-related harm in Indigenous Australian communities: prevention research evaluation report; prevention research summaries: reading and resource list. Melbourne: DrugInfo Clearinghouse
View report
View website: DrugInfo Clearinghouse - South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership (2004)
Aboriginal health - everybody's business: substance
misuse: a South Australian strategy for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people 2005-2010. Adelaide: South Australian
Aboriginal Health Partnership
View report (PDF - 1.39MB - large file warning!)
View website: Department of Health, South Australia
2003
- Briggs D, Lindorff K, Ivers R (2003) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and tobacco. Tobacco Control;12(supplement):ii5-ii8
View abstract: Tobacco Control
View website: Tobacco Control - Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services Division
(2003) The Koori alcohol and drug plan 2003-2004.
Melbourne: Victorian Government Department of Human Services
View report (PDF - 903KB)
View website: Victorian Government Health Information
2002
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (2002) National Health
Survey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander results, Australia
2001. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics
View report (PDF - 271KB)
View website: Australian Bureau of Statistics - Brady M (2002) Historical and cultural roots of tobacco use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;26:120-124.
View abstract: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
View website: Public Health Association of Australia - Lindorff K (2002) Tobacco, time for action: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tobacco Control Project: final report
Canberra: National Aboriginal Community Contolled Health Organisation
View report
View website: NACCHO
2001
- Ivers R (2001) Indigenous Australians and tobacco:
a literature review.
Casuarina: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health.
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View report (PDF - 522KB)
View website: Car and Home Smoke Free Zone - Miller M, Wood L (2001) Smoking cessation interventions: review of evidence and implications for best practice in health care settings: final report. Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
View report (PDF - 489KB)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing
Prior to 2001
- Cunningham J (1997) Cigarette smoking among Indigenous
Australians, 1994.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
View report
View website: Australian Bureau of Statistics - Research and Evaluation Committee of the National Expert Advisory Committee on Tobacco (2000) Australia's National Tobacco Campaign: evaluation report, volume 2.
Canberra: Department of Health and Aged Care
View report (PDF - 2.2MB - large file warning!)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing - Research and Evaluation Committee of the National Expert Advisory Committee on Tobacco (1999) Australia's National Tobacco Campaign: evaluation report, volume 1. Canberra:
Department of Health and Aged Care
View report (PDF - 1.76MB - large file warning!)
View Chapter 6: The impact of the National Tobacco Campaign on Indigenous communities: a study in Victoria (PDF - 167KB)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing - Roche M, Ober C (1997) Rethinking smoking among Aboriginal
Australians: the harm minimisation-abstinence conundrum.
Health Promotion Journal of Australia; 7(2):128-133
View abstract: Health Promotion Journal of Australia
View website: Australian Health Promotion Association
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Last updated: 1 September 2008



