Som e states operate Health Promotion Foundations that use part of state tobacco taxes to finance various health promotion and community development projects. Victoria was the first state to establish such a foundation, in 1987. Protection for non-smokers Smoking was banned in all workplaces of the federal government in 1988. Since then, protection from involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke has become widespread in both the public and private sectors. Successful legal actions by non-smoking employees and Australian smoking control advocacy groups have spurred employers to provide protection from involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke.
Smoking is banned in many public places and transit vehicles.
Also, generous funding from tobacco tax-supported state Health Promotion Foundations means that Australia has some of the world's best smoking and health promotion and education programmes.