The following Forest publications are available as pdf files. To download, click on the appropriate title.
Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State
Joe Jackson (2007)
Updated version of The Smoking Issue (see below). Downloaded over 12,000 times to date.
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Prejudice & Propaganda: The Truth About Passive Smoking (2005)
Specially commissioned 52pp report that lists, in forensic detail, the results of 147 studies into the effect of environmental tobacco smoke. Also features, as a foreword, Ralph Harris's challenge to the Chief Medical Officer (see below).
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Smoking Out The Truth
Ralph Harris (2005)
A year before MPs voted to ban smoking in all enclosed public places, Forest chairman Lord Harris of High Cross issued a passionate challenge to the Chief Medical Officer to justify his claim that passive smoking is a serious threat to non-smokers. Eloquently written and still worth reading. Also published as the foreword to Prejudice & Propaganda (above).
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The Smoking Issue
Joe Jackson (2004)
Hugely popular essay by writer and musician Joe Jackson. Easy to read. A masterclass in common sense. Downloaded over 60,000 times from the Forest website. A further 2,000 printed copies were distributed to politicians, journalists and broadcasters. Updated and re-published in 2007 as Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State (see above).