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Forest news & comment
Ireland: "Stop weaponising tax in war on smokers"
Mon 27th September, 2021
Campaigners have urged the government to "stop weaponising" tax in order to achieve a Smoke Free Ireland by 2025.
Raising age of sale won't stop young people smoking
Fri 6th August, 2021
“If you can have sex at 16, join the army and drive a car at 17, you should be allowed to buy tobacco at 18."
Ban on cigarettes "a fool's errand" says Forest
Mon 26th July, 2021
Forest has criticised a call by a leading tobacco company for the UK government to ban cigarettes within ten years.
Wales: Call to ban smoking in beer gardens "monumentally stupid"
Mon 21st June, 2021
Anti-smoking group ASH Wales wants smoking to be banned in beer gardens to "protect children's health".
Forest slams plan to ban smoking and vaping on council premises
Mon 21st June, 2021
Forest has criticised plans by Breckland Council in Norfolk to prohibit smoking and vaping on all council-owned sites.
Butt out, campaigners tell council
Wed 26th May, 2021
Forest has criticised plans to discourage workplace smoking areas in order to make Oxfordshire the first 'smoke-free' county in England by 2025.
Ireland: Forest slams plan to extend smoking ban to outdoor spaces
Tue 11th May, 2021
“The war on smoking has become a war on ordinary people who just want to be left alone to live their lives as they choose.”
No Smoking Day 2021: Claim that smokers are happier if they quit “laughably simplistic” says Forest
Tue 9th March, 2021
The suggestion that smokers who quit for six weeks or more are "happier than those who carry on smoking" has been dismissed as "laughably simplistic".
Wales: New smoking law “unnecessary” and “wrong”
Thu 25th February, 2021
A new law banning smoking outside hospitals, schools and other outdoor areas in Wales from March 1, 2021, is "unnecessary" and "wrong" say campaigners.
Tobacco free Ireland target "illiberal" and "unachievable"
Tue 24th November, 2020
Forest has urged the Irish government to abandon its target of making Ireland ‘tobacco free’ by 2025.
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