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Rob Lyons
The new EU directive: quit smoking or die
New rules from Brussels effectively banning low-risk alternatives to cigarettes, like e-cigs, will cost lives.
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| Thursday 4 April 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
Still smoking? You must be mad
By linking cigarettes to mental illness, anti-smokers are reviving an old authoritarian tactic: pathologising deviants.
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| Thursday 24 January 2013 |
Christopher Snowdon
This junk science just takes your breath away
The claim that the smoking ban has reduced asthma rates is a case study in using ‘research’ to justify coercive policy.
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| Tuesday 21 August 2012 |
Martin Cullip
Smoking out the Blackpool fag ban
Councillors at the English seaside resort town have no legal or popular basis for banning smoking in parks.
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| Tuesday 21 August 2012 |
Benjamin Lazarus
The plain lies of
plain-packs advocates
A High Court ruling last week means Australians will be guinea pigs for an illiberal policy based on junk science.
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| Wednesday 23 May 2012 |
Jason Walsh
How smokers’ rights are being vapourised
The anti-smoking lobby has now targeted electronic cigarettes in order to crack down even on the ‘notion’ of smoking.
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| Tuesday 24 April 2012 |
Chris Snowdon
Old moralism in new packaging
The current campaign to force cigarettes into plain packets is driven by an ugly Prohibitionist zeal.
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| Tuesday 24 April 2012 |
Patrick Basham
Monkey see, monkey smoke?
Despite anti-smoking activists’ claims, a fancy fag packet does not turn us into 20-a-day nicotine fiends.
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| Thursday 22 March 2012 |
Rania Hafez
Shisha scaremongering: a load of hubble-bubble
Perhaps those panicking about the British trend for this Middle Eastern pastime should chill out with the pipe themselves.
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| Tuesday 13 March 2012 |
Sally Millard
The media showtrial of Smokin’ Stacey
The hounding of Stacey Solomon for having a fag confirms that pregnant women now have little autonomy.
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| Wednesday 25 January 2012 |
Sally Millard
How about butting out of family life?
With its latest guilt-tripping wheeze, the anti-smoking lobby seems intent on turning our children against us.
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| Thursday 8 December 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Tobacco haters, kick your filthy habit
Boston’s ban on e-cigarettes shows what’s really driving the war on smoking: a weird desire to re-engineer our lifestyles.
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| Thursday 17 November 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Smoking in cars: the BMA’s dodgy dossier
The campaign against lighting up in vehicles is as underpinned by misinformation as Blair's bluster on Iraq was. Why isn't there more scepticism?
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| Wednesday 20 July 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Good healthcare for all? Not on the NHS
Under new local NHS plans, smokers and obese people - the undeserving sick - will be made to wait months for operations.
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| Thursday 7 July 2011 |
Max Klinger
The BMA: modern-day prohibitionists
The British Medical Association is dressing up moralistic attacks on smoking and drinking as health policy.
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The fag end of the argument
Attempts by anti-smoking zealots to smear a report on civil liberties reveal just how bankrupt their arguments are.
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| Thursday 10 March 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Ban these evil coloured boxes!
The Lib-Cons’ restrictions on cigarette displays in shops shows how little they think of us — and of freedom.
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| Monday 14 February 2011 |
Joe Jackson
Dogs must be banned from all public places
Dogs are a filthy habit, taken up by filthy people who clearly have no respect for those who don’t like dog hair.
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| Wednesday 19 January 2011 |
Josie Appleton
Spain: the people’s war to stub out conformism
Pinning rebellious tracts to their doors and daring the police to arrest them: behold Spanish bar-owners’ ‘insubmission’ to the smoking ban.
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| Tuesday 7 December 2010 |
Christopher Snowdon
Ceci n’est pas une cigarette
What is the anti-smoking lobby’s response to a harmless pretend-cigarette? It wants to ban it, of course.
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