Recommended reading

The following books, articles and essays provide a useful introduction to the smoking debate. Where appropriate, we have also included some official government advice. 

NEW!

• Civil Liberties: Up In Smoke
  Simon Davies, Privacy International supported by Forest (2011) 
  Foreword by Joe Jackson

Most recent Forest report

• Government lobbying government: tobacco control industry - see also Simon Clark: The state should stop giving anti-smoking groups public money to lobby the Government (October 2010)

Other Forest reports

• Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State
  Joe Jackson (2007)
  
  
• Prejudice & Propaganda: The Truth About Passive Smoking (2005)
  
  
• Smoking Out The Truth: A Challenge to the Chief Medical Officer
  Ralph Harris (2005)
  
  
• The Smoking Issue
  Joe Jackson (2004)

Books

• The Bully State: The End of Tolerance
  Brian Monteith (2009)

• Velvet Glove Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking
  Christopher Snowdon (2009)

• Scared To Death: From BSE to Global Warming
  Christopher Booker and Richard North (Continuum, 2007)
  
  
• La Diva Nicotina: How Tobacco Seduced The World
  Iain Gateley, Simon & Schuster (2001)
  
  
• The Faber Book of Smoking
  James Walton, Faber (2001)

Tobacco display bans

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Why Tobacco Display Bans Fail
  see also Displaying their ignorance on smoking (Spiked, April 2009)
  Patrick Basham and John Luik (Democracy Institute, 2009)

Public smoking bans

• The Bauld Truth (Imperial Tobacco, June 2011)
• The Impact of Smokefree Legislation in England (Linda Bauld, March 2011)
• Is the smoking ban a major cause of the decline of the pub in Britain and Ireland? (C R Consulting, 2010) 

• Are Public Smoking Bans Necessary?
  Dr Patrick Basham & Dr Juliette Roberts
  Democracy Institute (2009)

• Has the smoking ban reduced heart attacks?
  Tessa Mayes, Spectator, 31/10/2007
  
  
• Smoke and mirrors
  Deborah Arnott and Ian Willmore, Guardian, 19/07/2006

Passive smoking

• Smoking out the facts
  Rob Lyons, Spiked, 16/02/2006
   
  
• The overblown risks of second-hand smoke
  Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, European Voice, 26/01/2006

• Passive thinking is fatal
  Tim Luckhurst, The Times, 29/11/2005
  
  
• Under the influence of medical busybodies
  Dr James Le Fanu, Daily Telegraph,
  
  
• Health warning: doctors kill
  Rod Liddle, Guardian, 16/07/2003
  
  
• Warning: the health police can seriously raddle your brain
  Robert Matthews, Daily Telegraph, 18/05/2003
  
  
• I just want to hear the truth about passive smoking
  Tom Utley, Daily Telegraph, 17/05/2003

Cross-channel shopping

• Bringing alcohol and tobacco into the UK from the EU
  HM Revenue & Customs

Internet cigarettes

• Shopping on the internet
  HM Revenue & Customs

Smoking and driving

• The Highway Code/General Advice
  
  
• 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study
  Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 2006.
  
  
• Role of Driver Distraction in Traffic Crashes
  University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research, 2001
  
  
• Smoking and non-fatal traffic accidents
  Médico de Familia, Centro de Salud Delicias Norte, Spain, 2001

 Smoking and health

• Have a fag, live longer
  Tim Luckhurst, The Times, 15/06/2005 (?)

Smoking at work

• How your private life can cost you your job
  Patti Waldmeir, Financial Times, 28/07/2003

Smoking and healthcare

• Why smokers must have equal rights to health care
  Professor John Dormandy, Daily Mail, 14/11/2006

Smoking and mental health

• I smoke for my mental health
  David Hockney, Guardian, 15/05/2007
  
  
• Lighten up, and let the patients light up
  Ken McLaughlin, Spiked, 22/02/2007
  
  
• The unfair smoking ban will mean fuming on wards
  Clare Allen, Guardian, 07/02/2007

Youth smoking

• Under-18s will smoke whatever the law
  Andrew O'Hagan, Daily Telegraph, 05/07/2006