Australian Council on Smoking and Health

Increase public awareness of the health consequences of smoking and the tobacco industry's attempts to mislead the public.
Initiate and support the end to tobacco advertising, promotion and sales to minors.
Advocate the adoption of smoke-free policies in workplaces, public places and households to reduce exposure to passive smoking.
Seek reform of legislation and regulations regarding health warnings on cigarette packets, control of harmful components of cigarettes, tobacco taxation and tobacco subsidies.
Provide an information and educational service on tobacco for the general community.
Establish appropriate partnerships in the community designed to raise awareness of tobacco issues and to reduce tobacco use in the community.

Achieve lower smoking rates in all age groups of the population.
Encourage non-smokers to remain non-smokers.
Proscribe all forms of anti-tobacco promotion.
Reduce exposure to passive smoking.
Personalising the issue for all people involved in the manufacture and promotion of cigarettes and the regulation of cigarette advertising.
Fundraising in the private and government sector to help us achieve all these aims.
Enlist community support to help achieve all the above.

Lobby Parliamentarians and other key decision makers on the impacts of tobacco in the community.
Undertake projects designed to raise awareness of tobacco in the community and to reduce the negative impacts of tobacco use in the community.
Support research projects and scientific activities, including testing procedures designed to reduce tobacco prevalence.
Support tobacco cessation and awareness programmes in the indigenous community.
Personalising the issue for all people involved in the manufacture and promotion of cigarettes and the regulation of cigarette advertising.
Fundraising in the private and government sector to help us achieve all these aims.

For a list of ACOSH's current 10 key advocacy targets, click here.