The Senate recently passed the Federal Government's plain packaging laws which will ensure cigarettes are packaged in plain, olive-coloured containers by December next year.
Association president Paul Mara says rates of lung cancer are high in regional areas, particularly in remote Indigenous communities.
"In rural and regional areas there is a higher incidence of things such as cancers," he said.
"The morbidity or the illness associated with them is likely to be greater because of the lack of access on many occasions to appropriate health facilities.
"There is a higher incidence of things such as cancers and people are dying in greater numbers in those areas proportionately to the city areas, so the sooner we get rid of smoking the better it will be for everybody"
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