Senate debates

Monday, 4 December 2023

Bills

Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023, Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; In Committee

12:50 pm

Photo of Anne RustonAnne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I'm going to assume that what you've just said to the chamber is that the purpose of this bill is to reduce smoking rates in Australia. It's all the way through your explanatory memorandum, so I'm just assuming that I'm right in saying it's reducing smoking rates in Australia. I'm interested to understand how you intend to measure the success of this bill if you are unable to give me any indication at all as to the breakdown between legally accessed tobacco and tobacco that's accessed by illegal or black-market channels. How are you going to measure this?

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