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Sign up: AU Breaking News email She pointed towards New South Wales and Victoria introducing tough new laws to combat the widespread sale of illegal smokes and vapes, but said more needed to be done and quickly to address what she called a public health emergency

A child who spends an hour in a room filled with secondhand smoke breathes in as many harmful chemicals as a person who smokes 10 or more cigarettes.

Workers cut each stalk by hand with hatchets, then use a spike to impale them onto wooden stakes, splitting the stalk so it grips the stick tightly

"Tobacco companies sought to exploit the faith the public had in the medical profession as a means of reassuring their customers that smoking was safe," said Robert Jackler, MD, the Edward C