South Coast Medical Service’s Tackling Indigenous Smoking Program is traveling across the Far South Coast this week, to raise awareness around tobacco smoking and the preventable early deaths it causes across the nation.

The program’s Thomas Berry said almost 100 people visited the team’s traveling van at Bega’s Columbine Memorial Reserve on Monday. January 15.

“It gives the community a broad idea of what we do,” Mr Berry said.

He said the school holiday period is the best time to connect with young people.

“That is where smoking starts these days, with the young kids,” he said.

The program will visit Wallaga Lake on Tuesday.