About

SmokeFree Tasmania (SFT) is an advocacy organisation.

SFT comprises a group of people dedicated to reducing and eventually eliminating tobacco smoking in Tasmania, Australia. Members of SFT are tobacco control experts, researchers, health care professionals, legal advisers and concerned citizens.

Tasmania has one of the highest smoking rates in Australia.

The ABS Australian Health Survey 2011-12 showed that 21.7 per cent of Tasmanians aged 18 years or more were regularly smoking tobacco, compared to 18 per cent of Australians.
More males than females smoke in Tasmania (25.8 per cent compared to 17.9 per cent) and this gap is increasing.

The two worst problems are that about 40 per cent of young men smoke in Tasmania, that is, those aged 25 to 44 and secondly that 23 percent of pregnant women smoke. Furthermore the smoking rate amongst younger pregnant women is 35 per cent.

Since the 1990s SmokeFree Tasmanian has been involved in many campaigns including smoke free areas both indoors and outdoors, banning tobacco displays in shops, licensing tobacconists, increasing funding for anti-tobacco media campaigns and smoke free cars with children. In 2014 SmokeFree Tasmania became an organisation of experts.