Help Me Get off Smoking the Economy
Mark Knight
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.
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