Cancer Council’s Tackling Tobacco program: an Australian initative building partnerships for public health research impact

Objectives Recognising the need to address high rates of smoking within priority populations, the Cancer Council New South Wales launched the ‘Tackling Tobacco’ program in 2006. This program aims to reduce tobacco-related disparities among groups experiencing social and economic disadvantage in the state of New South Wales (NSW). After almost 20 years of implementation, this paper describes the development, implementation, evaluation and national scale up of the Tackling Tobacco program. Type of