Prevent the uptake of smoking

• Advocate for legislation to standardise tobacco product packaging and sizes to ensure that tobacco products do not become more affordable for young people.
• Deliver public education campaigns about the negative health impacts of smoking, to discourage people from taking up smoking.

Motivate more smokers to quit and quit successfully

• Work with health and other systems to ensure people who smoke and use their services receive advice on quitting, and are referred to a cessation service.
• Advocate and support the implementation of best-practice smoking cessation care in Victoria.
• Increase the number of evidence-based behavioural intervention tools for people who smoke to help them to quit and stay quit
• Develop multimedia tools to help people quit smoking.

Reduce levels of exposure to secondhand smoke

• Support action to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in public spaces and in private dwellings.

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