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Victorian-first as free grade 5-6 education resources launched to help students learn about youth vaping harms

In a first for the state, primary school teachers and health educators of grades 5 and 6 students will now have access to a range of Victorian curriculum-aligned vaping education resources to teach young people about the harms of vaping and help create healthy communities.

New year, new you! How a setting a quit goal can put you on the right track

Welcoming a new Tobacco Licensing Scheme, bringing Victoria in line with the rest of Australia

Quit and Cancer Council Victoria today join in marking the passage of milestone legislation to introduce a licensing scheme for tobacco at the retail and wholesale levels in Victoria.

New Victorian data shows highest vaping prevalence in metro areas, highest smoking prevalence in regional areas

A new report from Cancer Council Victoria’s Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer (CBRC) shows a concerning prevalence of smoking and vaping across the Victorian community, broken down by local government areas (LGAs) and local public health units (LPHUs).  

The Con that Kills campaign airs again, as tobacco product manipulation continues

Quit has rolled out its latest reboot of an industry manipulation campaign, alerting Victorians to tobacco industry tactics that seek to addict them and in turn risk causing them significant harm by smoking.

Quit launches new campaign ‘The Hanky’ to empower multicultural communities with higher smoking rates to quit

Quit today launches an in-language campaign, The Hanky, to motivate quitting amongst Victorian multicultural communities with high smoking rates. This first-of-its-kind campaign focuses on Vietnamese, Mandarin and Arabic-speaking people and communiti

Urgent need to adopt Parliamentary Inquiry recommendations to combat tobacco and non-therapeutic vaping harm

Cancer Council Victoria and Quit strongly support the recommendations of a government-led inquiry addressing the financial, health, social, and environmental effects of tobacco and e-cigarette use in Victoria.

Quit welcomes third crucial piece of vaping reform and reminds Australians of new national quitting services

Quit and Cancer Council Victoria mark the passage through the Senate of legislation to end the sale of vapes in retail stores to further protect Australians from the harms of nicotine addiction.

Federal funding for new digital services to best support Australians quitting smoking or vaping

The Federal Government and Australia’s leading cessation service, Quit, have announced the expansion of services to include a new national hub - www.quit.org.au - to help people quit smoking and vaping.

World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day 2024: protecting children from tobacco industry interference