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    • We are NSW's cancer control agency, established under the Cancer Institute NSW (2003) Act to lessen the impact of cancer across the State. Our vision: To end cancers as we know them.
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Preventing cancer

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Quit smoking campaigns

We develop mass-media campaigns to help people understand the harms of smoking and support smokers to quit.

Find support to quit smoking at iCanQuit.com.au.

Browse the current and past campaigns and find out more about reducing smoking in NSW.

Beat the cravings

Beat the cravings

Never Give Up Giving Up anti-smoking Campaign

Never Give Up Giving Up anti-smoking Campaign

Win anti-smoking campaign

Win anti-smoking campaign

Quit Stalling

Quit Stalling

Mick - anti-smoking Campaign

Mick - anti-smoking Campaign

What's Worse anti-smoking campaign

What's Worse anti-smoking campaign

Aboriginal Quit Smoking

Aboriginal Quit Smoking

Aboriginal Quit Smoking mini series

Aboriginal Quit Smoking mini series

16 Cancers anti-smoking campaign

16 Cancers anti-smoking campaign

Best Intentions

Best Intentions

Bronchoscopy

Bronchoscopy

Bubblewrap - smoking and lung damage

Bubblewrap - smoking and lung damage

Cigarettes Are Eating You Alive

Cigarettes Are Eating You Alive

Emphysema

Emphysema

Excuses

Excuses

Get Off Cigarettes

Get Off Cigarettes

iCanQuit

iCanQuit

If Smoking was a Friend

If Smoking was a Friend

Many Diseases

Many Diseases

Mutations

Mutations

National Tobacco Campaign revised

National Tobacco Campaign revised

Quitline Services

Quitline Services

Sponge

Sponge

Stairway to Emphysema

Stairway to Emphysema

Terrie anti-smoking campaign

Terrie anti-smoking campaign

Breastscreen campaigns Cervical screening campaigns

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