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Australia's disadvantaged more likely to die from smoking related diseases

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Australia's most disadvantaged people are more than twice as likely to die from smoking-related diseases. A new study by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has found that disease is hitting smokers in the Northern Territory the hardest.
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