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ASH Australia's latest  media releases and alerts:

• Protecting children from car smoke not "trivial", Mr Abbott  July 2, 2009
  Concern from 40 health, child welfare groups at Liberal MP's cavalier comments...
  See  ABC report of Abbott remarks 
  

NSW laws to protect children take effect
1/7/09: New laws to protect children from smoke exposure in cars and from tobacco promotion in shops have started  to take effect.  See  details 

Obama signs US tobacco control bill
22/6/09: President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill granting the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco.  Details at  US campaign for tobacco-free kids      

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Smoking is Australia's no.1 preventable cause of death and disease. 
Each year it kills more than 15,000 people - including one child every 10 days;
and  costs  the nation over $31 billion - many times more than the tax it raises. 

ASH Australia  (Action on Smoking and Health) aims to 
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