The lawns of Parliament House will be strewn with 66 body bags as health advocates call for urgent action to prevent Australians dying from tobacco use.
A senate inquiry into Australia's illegal tobacco crisis will hold its first hearing on Monday, and is set to hear from Australian Border Force officials, medical experts and representatives from the Cancer Council.
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Ahead of the hearing, health advocates say they will deliver a clear message to MPs that any solution that does not reduce smoking rates and deaths is a failure.
The body bags will represent the 66 Australians who die every day from tobacco.
While tobacco lobbyists have called for the excise to be lowered to disrupt illegal traders, Australian Council on Smoking and Health chief executive Laura Hunter said this proposal was a "self-serving red herring".
