GRAMPIANS in regional Victoria has the highest smoking rate in Australia, with 28 per cent of adults lighting up at least once a day, according to new data.
Adults in Sydney's north shore and beaches have the cleanest lungs, with only six per cent smoking daily, according to a National Health Performance authority report released on Thursday.
The local-level analysis is produced at the request the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), which is aiming to reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent by 2018.
It is intended to help local communities in defining their healthcare needs, says authority CEO Dr Diane Watson.
It provides data on smoking in the Medicare local areas established in 2011 to promote decision making and service provision at community level.
The overall rate was 16 per cent in 2011-12, when the data was gathered, with only four local areas achieving 10 per cent or better.
These are Sydney's north shore and beaches, inner east Melbourne, Bayside in Victoria and inner west Sydney.
The Medicare areas with the highest rates are Grampians, Goldfields-midwest in Western Australia, far north Queensland and Northern Territory.
Of the 2.7 million who smoke, those in poorer, remote areas are far more likely to light up than people in wealthier metropolitan suburbs in NSW and Victoria.
People in Australian Capital Territory are least likely to smoke at 13 per cent, followed by NSW (14 per cent), Victoria and South Australia (16 per cent), Queensland and Western Australia (18 per cent), Tasmania (21 per cent) and the Northern Territory (24 per cent).
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