Tackling Indigenous Smoking

In 2015, Apunipima received a Tackling Indigenous Smoking Regional Grant as part of the National Tackling Indigenous Smoking program. Nationally, the goal of the program is to improve the health of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people through local efforts to reduce harm from tobacco. 

The Apunipima Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) team works closely with Cape York communities to deliver locally appropriate programs and activities that aim to:

• Engage community members in tobacco cessation activities
• Improve access to culturally appropriate quit support
• Encourage and support smokers to quit
• Encourage and support non-smokers to avoid uptake
• Raise awareness in communities about the health impacts of smoking and passive smoking
• Support communities to establish smoke-free homes, workplaces and public spaces