Division Description Changes — Health: Tobacco — 14th Jun 2006

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senate vote 2006-06-14#4 Edited by mackay staff on 2016-09-17 22:56:40	Title ~~Health: Tobacco~~ Motions - Health: Tobacco - Increase funding to anti-smoking Description ~~<p class="speaker">Lyn Allison</p>~~ ~~<p>I move:</p>~~ <dl><dt></dt><dd>That the Senate—<dl><dt>(a)</dt><dd>recognises that according to the recently released report, <i>Counting the costs of tobacco and the benefits of reducing smoking prevalence in Victoria</i>:<dl><dt>(i)</dt><dd>the total social costs of smoking in Victoria in the 1998-99 financial year were approximately $5.05 billion,</dd><dt>(ii)</dt><dd>of the total Victorian costs, approximately 45 per cent were avoidable,</dd><dt>(iii)</dt><dd>as a result of Victorian smoking, federal smoking-attributable expenditures exceeded smoking attributable revenues by approximately $160 million in the 1998-99 financial year, and</dd><dt>(iv)</dt><dd>under the most conservative method of estimation, the benefits of the reduction in smoking prevalence would be $2 034 million, or $10 291 for each person prevented from smoking by anti-smoking interventions; and</dd></dl></dd><dt>(b)</dt><dd>calls on the Government to increase the proportion of smoking-related revenue that is allocated to anti-smoking interventions.</dd></dl></dd></dl><p>Question put.</p> The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2006-06-14.73.2) introduced by Australian Democrats Senator [Lyn Allison](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/lyn_allison), which means it was unsuccessful. ### Motion text > That the Senate— *> (a)** recognises that according to the recently released report, Counting the costs of tobacco and the benefits of reducing smoking prevalence in Victoria:* *>> (i)** the total social costs of smoking in Victoria in the 1998-99 financial year were approximately $5.05 billion,* >> (ii) of the total Victorian costs, approximately 45 per cent were avoidable, >> (iii) as a result of Victorian smoking, federal smoking-attributable expenditures exceeded smoking attributable revenues by approximately $160 million in the 1998-99 financial year, and >> (iv) under the most conservative method of estimation, the benefits of the reduction in smoking prevalence would be $2 034 million, or $10 291 for each person prevented from smoking by anti-smoking interventions; and *> (b)** calls on the Government to increase the proportion of smoking-related revenue that is allocated to anti-smoking interventions.*

~~Lyn Allison~~
~~I move:~~
<dl><dt></dt><dd>That the Senate—<dl><dt>(a)</dt><dd>recognises that according to the recently released report, Counting the costs of tobacco and the benefits of reducing smoking prevalence in Victoria:<dl><dt>(i)</dt><dd>the total social costs of smoking in Victoria in the 1998-99 financial year were approximately $5.05 billion,</dd><dt>(ii)</dt><dd>of the total Victorian costs, approximately 45 per cent were avoidable,</dd><dt>(iii)</dt><dd>as a result of Victorian smoking, federal smoking-attributable expenditures exceeded smoking attributable revenues by approximately $160 million in the 1998-99 financial year, and</dd><dt>(iv)</dt><dd>under the most conservative method of estimation, the benefits of the reduction in smoking prevalence would be $2 034 million, or $10 291 for each person prevented from smoking by anti-smoking interventions; and</dd></dl></dd><dt>(b)</dt><dd>calls on the Government to increase the proportion of smoking-related revenue that is allocated to anti-smoking interventions.</dd></dl></dd></dl>Question put.
The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2006-06-14.73.2) introduced by Australian Democrats Senator [Lyn Allison](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/lyn_allison), which means it was unsuccessful.
### Motion text
> *That the Senate—*
> *(a) recognises that according to the recently released report, Counting the costs of tobacco and the benefits of reducing smoking prevalence in Victoria:*
>> *(i) the total social costs of smoking in Victoria in the 1998-99 financial year were approximately $5.05 billion,*
>> *(ii) of the total Victorian costs, approximately 45 per cent were avoidable,*
>> *(iii) as a result of Victorian smoking, federal smoking-attributable expenditures exceeded smoking attributable revenues by approximately $160 million in the 1998-99 financial year, and*
>> *(iv) under the most conservative method of estimation, the benefits of the reduction in smoking prevalence would be $2 034 million, or $10 291 for each person prevented from smoking by anti-smoking interventions; and*
> *(b) calls on the Government to increase the proportion of smoking-related revenue that is allocated to anti-smoking interventions.*