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Children at risk of being removed from their families as Tasmanian housing crisis deepens

Justin Williams and Lekita Smith say seven-month-old George "is their world". (ABC News: Maren Preuss)

Lekita Smith used to tell herself she would smoke dope until the day she died. 

The 26-year-old experienced trauma as a child, was in an emotionally abusive relationship as a teenager, and had her older children taken off her when she became homeless. 

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