Help Me Get off Smoking the Economy
Mark Knight
3 May 2023
In the December quarter of 2022 inflation hit 7.8 per cent, its highest point in over 30 years. By May 2023 it was still at 7 per cent despite multiple interest-rate increases. Inflation has long been depicted as ‘the dragon to slay’ in Australian news media. Here Mark Knight brings two stories together: government measures to reduce the uptake of vaping in Australia and the impact of inflation on the Australian economy.