James Thompson

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987 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · AI, AGMs, and Overworked Directors · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Generally falling interest rates, generally rising asset prices, generally more largesse from the government, including free university for a long period.

Those are big tailwinds that are just not available to younger people today.

And the result is very high asset prices that are going to be a huge issue for a long time to come.

Yes.

Look, you know, Jackie's right.

The latest data, which was out sort of late last week –

Last Friday, it's certainly encouraging.

I mean, daily smoking among Australians aged 14 and over, it's down from 19.5% in 2001 down to 5.6%.

You know, that is a great public health result.

Is it all because of the tax?

I mean, Jackie in her question refers to some academic research.

Certainly the tax is important, but so is things like plain packaging, banning tobacco advertising, creating smoke-free public places, graphic health warnings, mass media campaigns, supporting people to quit.

I mean, Jackie refers to Professor Becky Freeman and she's got a list.

Yes, certainly tobacco taxes are on there, but it's not the only item on there.

I'd also just refer to a little note of concern expressed by the Australian Council on Smoking and Health about what the data says.

So what the data says is the question they ask is, do you smoke daily?

which is a good thing to ask, but what the Australian Council of Smoking and Health is concerned about is that they've heard from a lot of doctors that some patients who have previously smoked one to five cigarettes a day

are now smoking 10 to 15 or an entire pack because they're so cheap because illicit tobacco is everywhere and its market share is something like 50%.

So, Jackie, I take your point.

We have done a great job on getting smoking rates down, but I would be very concerned, like the Council of Smoking and Health are,

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