Push to raise legal smoking age to 21

Jacob McArthur
Updated January 30 2018 - 10:43pm, first published 10:18pm
BUTT OUT: A campaign has started to lift the legal smoking age to 21. Photo: Peter Hardin
BUTT OUT: A campaign has started to lift the legal smoking age to 21. Photo: Peter Hardin

CANCER groups across Australia are supporting a push to raise the legal smoking age to 21.

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Jacob McArthur

Jacob McArthur is opinions editor for The Canberra Times and Australian Community Media. As part of the Canberra Times' production team, he helps the people of Canberra and beyond get the stories they need, when they need them across a range of platforms, while helping maintain a high editorial standard. Before moving to Canberra in 2020, he started with Australian Community Media in 2015 as a journalist for The Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he kept a close eye on Tamworth Regional Council. Jacob was also the co-host of ACM's Water Pressure podcast where he and Jamieson Murphy took a deep dive on issues and key decisions arising during one of the region's worst droughts on record.

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