Every year, our Population Health behavioural scientists prepare a statistical overview of smoking in South Australia. We encourage you to download the latest statistics.
KEY STATISTICS
- Smoking rates are the lowest ever recorded in South Australia with 14.9% of adults aged 15 years and over and 12.3% of young people aged 15-29 smoking in 2016
- Most South Australian smokers want to quit with 74.1% making a previous quit attempt, 34.1% having tried in the past year and 53.9% wanting to in the next six months
- Smoking rates among school children are also at an all-time low with 3% of secondary students aged 12-17 years smoking in the past week
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
SAHMRI's Population Health Group is a part of our Cancer and Heart Health themes.
