Simon Clark, director of the UK smoker’s lobby group FOREST (Freedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco).
"Prohibition and the Nanny State and the How’s/Why’s of Defending the Right to Smoke”.
A talk with SIMON CLARK, director of the UK smoker’s lobby group FOREST (Freedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) founded in 1979).
We’ve seen indoor smoking bans adopted globally, then gory warnings reared their ugly heads and were adopted globally, then the plain packaging idea was planted in Australia and grew like fungus all over, and then taxes rising around the world trying to price cigarettes out of reach of many . . . one wonders what else besides just banning cigarettes can be done by the anti-tobacconists? What is the state-of-the-art of the anti-tobacco movement? What are the main fronts that the antis are fighting on these days?