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Data on tobacco use in this section refer to smoking of tobacco, includingmanufactured (packet) cigarettes, roll-your-own cigarettes, cigars and pipes, butexcludes chewing tobacco and smoking of non-tobacco products. Current dailysmokers refer to people who smoked one or more cigarettes (or pipes or cigars) perday at the time of interview. Data in this section focus on current daily smokersaged 18 years and over.Figure 8.2.1 Current daily smokers, Indigenous people aged 18 years andover, 2004-05 a, b10080Per cent6040200Major citiesInnerregionalOuterregionalRemote Very remote Australiaa ‘Current daily smokers’ refers to people who smoked one or more cigarettes (or pipes or cigars) per day atthe time of interview. b Error bars represent 95 per cent confidence intervals around each estimate (seechapter 2 for more information).Source: ABS 2004-05 NATSIHS; table 8A.2.8.In 2004-05:• Nationally, 50.0 per cent of Indigenous adults were current daily smokers(figure 8.2.1).• The proportion of current daily smokers among Indigenous adults was similaracross remoteness areas (figure 8.2.1).After taking account of the different age structures of the Indigenous andnon-Indigenous populations, in 2004-05:• Nationally, Indigenous adults were more than twice as likely as non-Indigenousadults to be current daily smokers (46.3 per cent compared to 21.1 per cent)(table 8A.2.2).• The proportion of current daily smokers among Indigenous adults was higherthan that for non-Indigenous adults across four remoteness areas (major cities,8.20 OVERCOMINGINDIGENOUSDISADVANTAGE 2007