Lab teaches remote kids healthy living

A TRAVELLING health lab has found a fun way to make people interested in their long-term health, and is finding success in a remote top end community.

IN a busy classroom on the Tiwi Islands, teacher's aide Stan blows into a breathalyser measuring carbon dioxide from smoke in the body, almost sending himself off the classroom scale. His students dissolve into laughter.

WHEN asked, he sheepishly admits to smoking.