In Reply to: Brilliant...except for one slight flaw.. posted by Snoopy on Sunday, 28. April 2013 at 16:54 Bali Time:
Will be used to fix this ever increasing cost of treatment of the bogans:
Western Australia
In 2010, 11.5% of Western Australians aged 16 and over smoked on a daily basis, with a further 3.3%
indicating they were occasional smokers.9
In 2008, 4.8% of 12 to 17 year old school students were current smokers (4.6% of males and 5.1% of
females).11
In Western Australia close to 270,000 people aged 16 and over still smoke daily or occasionally,12 and each
year approximately 8,000 school students in years 7 to 12 are current smokers (i.e. smoked in the last
week).13
In 2004/05, tobacco killed 1,256 Western Australians.14
In 2004, tobacco was responsible for 10,734 hospitalisations,10 and in 2004/05, 67,370 hospital bed days
and $59.8 million in hospital costs.14
The social costs of smoking in Western Australia were $2.4 billion in 2004/05.14