Don’t Make Smokes Your Story is a campaign to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to quit smoking. Charles quit because he didn’t want to die from smokes. This is his story. “Smoking is not part of our culture. It’s become a part of a destructive culture that we’ve latched onto, and we’ve made it become the story of what it’s like to be not only Indigenous, but what it’s like to be a man, to be somebody accepted in our community,” Charles says. “We have a chance now today to start a whole new different story on how we make our life become a better place, for not only for ourselves but for our children, and for the whole of community, but especially for yourself as a person.” australia.gov.au/quitnow
