Smoking at record low in Australia, but the grim harvest of preventable heart disease continues
- Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
The latest statistics show smoking's legacy when it comes to preventable deaths from cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke.from www.shutterstock.com
Smoking rates in Australia are at an all-time low. And yet, nearly 11,500 people are hospitalised from smoking-related cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease each year, while...