Despite the snake oil, garbage econometric modeling and deliberate mistruths from tobacco companies and the IPA, the indisputable facts show volume of tobacco consumed by Australian households has fallen to a new record low. A record low!

The national accounts reveal that the volume of tobacco consumed fell 2.2 per cent in the September quarter to continue the broad down trend in tobacco consumption evident over many decades.

Despite population growth, the volume of tobacco consumed in aggregate terms has never been lower going all the way back to 1959 when the ABS started calculating the data.