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Parents have been left shocked after a 13-year-old boy was hospitalised after a va**ng incident a Victorian school this ...
02/08/2025

Parents have been left shocked after a 13-year-old boy was hospitalised after a va**ng incident a Victorian school this morning.
The student collapsed after reportedly va**ng in the toilets at Bannockburn P-12 College, 3AW’s Neil Mitchell reports.
The young boy was taken to Geelong Hospital in a stable condition, after paramedics were called to the incident about 8:45am.
A Department of Education spokesperson said they were aware of an incident.
“A Bannockburn student was taken by ambulance to hospital after a minor medical incident this morning.”
Parents today told 9News that va**ng was an issue at the school.
“You don’t know whose getting hold of it, at a prep to 12 school - little kids can pick them up, it’s really scary,” parent Bianca Eastdown said.
“It’s just as scary as smoking. Really kids shouldn’t be doing it - to have it happen in a school is terrifying.”
A recent review conducted by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) found va**ng posed significant health risks, particularly among children.
“Vaping has now become the number one behavioural issue in high schools and it is becoming widespread in primary schools as well,” Federal Health Mark Butler said earlier this year.
“Over the past 12 months, Victoria’s poisons hotline has taken 50 calls about children under the age of four ingesting vapes. Under the age of four.
“Vapes contain more than 200 chemicals that do not belong in the lungs. Some of the same chemicals you will find in nail polish remover and w**d killer.”

Article and information courtesy of Allanah Sciberras

Victorian Aboriginal Health Service -VAHS
31/07/2025

Victorian Aboriginal Health Service -VAHS

The team at Bunjilwarra Koorie Healing Service was pleased to welcome VAADA - The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association CEO Chris Christoforou to our site 🖤💛❤️

Chris spent time with Uncle Pat and the Bunjilwarra leadership group, learning more about our unique cultural healing approach, and reflecting on the positive impact Bunjilwarra has had for young Mob.

The team also yarned with Chris about some of the challenges young people face on their journeys, and VAADA's advocacy as the peak body for Aboriginal Community accessing drug and alcohol related services.

Are you trying to kick the smokes/vape and need some extra support? We can help!Contact Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal H...
31/07/2025

Are you trying to kick the smokes/vape and need some extra support? We can help!

Contact Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services to learn more about how we can help you and our “No More Boondah” support program.

Call us at 6284 6222 to have a yarn about how we can support you.

Don't forget our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day event is happening THIS MONDAY from 11am-2pm. We'v...
30/07/2025

Don't forget our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day event is happening THIS MONDAY from 11am-2pm.

We've got food, we've got a magician, we've even got a petting zoo! You and your bubbas are sure to have a brilliant time.

Send us a message if you have any questions, see you mob there! 🖤💛❤️

Julie Tongs Save a date August 4 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders here at Winnunga

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NACCHO Aboriginal Health Australia
Tackling Indigenous Smoking - TIS at Winnunga Nimmityah AMS
Andrew Barr ACT Chief Minister
Thomas Emerson
David Pocock
Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA
Deadly Choices
SNAICC-National Voice for our Children
Claystone Marketing
Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation

Some deadly talent coming out of Ngunnawal Country ❤️
30/07/2025

Some deadly talent coming out of Ngunnawal Country ❤️

In 2022–2023, 45 per cent of males that age consumed alcohol at risky levels compared to 40 per cent of females, the sma...
30/07/2025

In 2022–2023, 45 per cent of males that age consumed alcohol at risky levels compared to 40 per cent of females, the smallest gap seen since 2001.
Alcohol remains Australia’s most widely-used drug�, with 77 per cent of those surveyed having drunk it in the past 12 months.
Risky drinking has also not changed much since 2019, with rates dropping from 32 per cent to 31 per cent.
Men overall remain much more likely to drink risky levels of alcohol than women, at 39 per cent compared to 23 per cent.�
However, this is in the context of a long-term decline in risky drinking, from 50 per cent of men and 27 per cent of women in 2007.�
Meanwhile, to***co use remains in decline, with fewer than 10 per cent of people smoking daily.
Conversely, e-cigarette use has tripped between 2019 and 2022-23.�
In 2022–2023, 19.8 per cent of people aged 14 and over in Australia reported having used an e-cigarette at least once in their lifetime, up from 11.3 per cent in 2019.
Current use of e-ci******es also increased, from 2.5 per cent in 2019 to seven per cent in 2022–2023.

Article and information courtesy of Adam Vidler via Nine News https://www.9news.com.au/national/drug-habits-report-young-women-draw-level-with-men-drugs-smoking-down-va**ng-up/c92d23ce-fc5c-4cf7-87ce-806cc248ab67

Happy wife, happy life. right? Quit smoking = fresh breath, fresh confidence, fresh YOU.Are you trying to kick the smoke...
26/07/2025

Happy wife, happy life. right?

Quit smoking = fresh breath, fresh confidence, fresh YOU.

Are you trying to kick the smokes/vape and need some extra support? We can help!

Contact Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services to learn more about how we can help you and our “No More Boondah” support program.

Call us at 6284 6222 to have a yarn about how we can support you.

Prior to the ANU study, no quantitative population profiles of people who smoke had been published in Australia or overs...
23/07/2025

Prior to the ANU study, no quantitative population profiles of people who smoke had been published in Australia or overseas�, researchers said.
Studies that have compared the characteristics of people who do or do not smoke have found that men, middle-aged people, and people living in areas of lower socio-economic status or greater remoteness are more likely to smoke.
“The to***co industry, responsible for the extensive use of its addictive products around the world, has a history of targeting specific population groups,” the study said.
The paper detailed how an executive from to***co giant R.J. Reynolds was asked in 1998 why he didn’t smoke, and he responded: “We don’t smoke the s**t. We just sell it. We reserve the right to smoke for the young, the poor, the black, and the stupid.”
The study said the attitude of that to***co exec was “consistent” with the stereotype people who smoke are “from specific ethnic groups, uneducated, unemployed, or mentally ill, particularly where smoking is no longer normalised in the general population.”
To***co smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and disease in Australia.
Known to be highly addictive and the cause of strokes, heart diseases and many types of cancer, it claims the lives of around 24,000 Australians every year.
Since the 1990s, sustained rises in federal taxes on ci******es have led to Australian smokers paying some of the highest prices in the world to maintain their habit.
Newly imposed taxes in 2023 will increase to***co prices by 5 per cent each year up to 2026, making a single 20s pack cost around $50 by 2026.
By 2030, experts expect a 30-pack of ci******es to cost $100.

Article and information courtesy of Mark Saunokonoko via Nine News https://www.9news.com.au/national/who-are-the-2-million-daily-smokers-in-australia/518977b0-7166-431c-8b55-2bff75618f1b

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