North-west Victoria revealed as smoking hot spot

Allan Murphy

NORTH-west Victoria is the smoking hot spot of the state with more than one in five people still puffing away, new Heart Foundation data has revealed. The habit is one of four leading risk factors of heart disease alongside obesity, high blood pressure and physical inactivity, in which the north-west of the state also performed […]

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