Interesting, from the poll it appears that the number of smokers on IIS is about the same as the National Australian average (around 18%). This is surprising because education level and being a smoker corelates very well so I would have thought our membership would have had a lower number of smokers? The percentage of smokers amongst University educated people is about half that of the those with only yr 10. Smoking rates are still highest among the less educated. As more educated groups, and those in higher socioeconomic groups, have quit smoking or more importantly, never taken it up, smoking has become increasingly concentrated among the less educated.
Of course many non Aussies are on this group so perhaps they have skewed our results?
Mike