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Media coverage
Spokesmen for Forest are often quoted in the national and local press. You'll hear us at all times of day and night on radio and if you don't blink you may catch us providing a short soundbite for any number of television news or magazine programmes. Here is some of our recent media coverage:
Latest
UK introduces tobacco display ban in supermarkets and large stores. Forest spokesmen interviewed on:
06/04/2012 BBC News Channel
06/04/2012 Sky News
06/04/2012 ITV Daybreak
06/04/2012 BBC Radio London
06/04/2012 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
06/04/2012 BBC Radio WM
Newspapers and online
31/03/2012 Ban smoking in cars call (Daily Mirror)
21/03/2012 Smokers smal tobacco duty rise (Independent)
13/03/2012 Forest launches online campaign against plain tobacco packaging (Talking Retail)
12/03/2012 Cigarette display laws could cripple tobacconists ... (Birmingham Mail)
18/02/2012 No-one fined for smoking in pubs (Oxford Mail)
18/02/2012 Standard Life bans employees from smoking electronic cigarettes at work (Scotsman)
07/01/2012 Should cigarettes have plain packets? (The Times)
03/01/2012 ‘No evidence that plain packaging will reduce smoking rates’, says Forest (Talking Retail)
29/12/2011 Branded cigarettes safer, say 25% (Press Association)
29/12/2011 Young smokers attracted by cigarette branding, says survey (Daily Mirror)
29/12/2011 Young smokers believe cigarettes in 'glitzy' packets are less harmful (Huffington Post)
29/12/2011 Ban on smoking in cars with children is backed by the Bevan Foundation (Western Mail)
22/11/2011 Olympic fans to stub it out (Daily Star)
14/11/2011 Edwin Poots launches car smoking ban consultation (BBC News)
08/11/2011 Nottingham City Council to make playgrounds 'smoke free (BBC News)
22/10/2011 Lobby watch: Save Our Pubs & Clubs and Forest (British Medical Journal)
20/09/2011 Smoking in films 'encourages teenagers to take it up' (BBC News)
06/09/2011 Minister accused of intolerance after branding fireworks smokers 'foul' (Scotsman)
25/08/2011 TV chef launches e-petition to amend smoking ban (Morning Advertiser)
25/08/2011 Celebrity chef demands return of pub smoking (The Grocer)
24/08/2011 Antony Worrall Thompson launches petition for smoking ban review (Caterer and Hotelkeeper)
16/08/2011 Smoke signals (Scotsman)
07/08/2011 Smoking to be banned in parks (Sunday Times)
08/07/2011 Smoking in cars: head-to-head with BMA (The Times)
05/07/2011 The fag end of the argument (spiked)
04/07/2011 Is smoking still defensible? (Independent)
04/07/2011 Smokers are discriminated against, says report (Morning Advertiser)
04/07/2011 Report documents 'persecution' of smokers (Politics.co.uk)
04/07/2011 Smokers face increasing discrimination, claims Forest funded report (Retail Times)
30/06/2011 Doctors call for ban on smoking in cars (Scotsman)
29/06/2011 Don't smoke and drive, say doctors calling for a ban (Daily Mirror)
29/06/2011 Dangers of smoking in cars extremely damaging to health - say BMA (Wales Online)
29/06/2011 MPs support campaign to amend smoking ban in pubs (Big Hospitality)
25/05/2011 Por qué Philip Morris considera a Uruguay una amenaza? (BBC World)
06/05/2011 Belfast International Airport charges smokers a £1 to light up (Daily Mail)
02/05/2011 Passive smoking fumes raise boys' blood pressure (Scotsman)
27/04/2011 Treasury to cut holidaymakers' personal tobacco allowances (Guardian)
25/03/2011 Forest calls for changes to Scots smoking ban (Morning Advertiser)
25/03/2011 Scotland's smoking ban hailed as anniversary approaches (BBC News)
24/03/2011 Booze and fags hit by George Osborne (Daily Mirror)
24/03/2011 It's hurting and it's still not working (Daily Record)
23/03/2011 Forest: Budget penalises law-abiding smokers (Politics.co.uk)
23/03/2011 Cheap cigarettes prompt duty change (Independent/PA)
23/03/2011 Cost of cigarettes and alcohol to increase tonight (Daily Mail)
23/03/2011 Tobacco duty rise 'a boon to black marketeers' (The Grocer)
23/03/2011 Budget 2011: £7 pack of cigarettes (Daily Telegraph)
22/03/2011 Five years of the smoking ban (Scotsman)
13/03/2011 740 pubs have pulled their last pint thanks to smoking ban (Mail on Sunday)
13/03/2011 Just what has the smoking ban really achieved? (Scotland on Sunday)
10/03/2011 Trust bosses want to make hospitals completely smoke-free (Daily Gazette)
10/03/2011 Big tobacco counter cover up (Daily Mail)
09/03/2011 Tobacco displays to be banned from shops (BBC News)
09/03/2011 UK plans to end display, promotion of tobacco in stores (Bloomberg)
Radio and television
06/04/2012 BBC News Channel
06/04/2012 Sky News
06/04/2012 ITV Daybreak
06/04/2012 BBC Radio London
06/04/2012 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
06/04/2012 BBC Radio WM
31/03/2012 BBC Breakfast (BBC1)
31/03/2012 BBC Radio Five Live
31/03/2012 BBC News Online
29/12/2011 BBC Radio London (plain packaging) and BBC Radio Wales (smoking in cars)
16/11/2011 BBC News Channel
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Five Live Breakfast
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Four Today programme
16/11/2011 BBC Breakfast (BBC1)
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Kent
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Oxford
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Scotland
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Merseyside
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Five Live Phone-in
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Wiltshire
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Stoke
16/11/2011 BBC Radio York
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Manchester
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire
16/11/2011 BBC News Channel
16/11/2011 Scottish Television
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Two (Jeremy Vine Show)
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Wales (phone-in)
16/11/2011 Sky News (live interview)
16/11/2011 Sky News (recorded interview)
16/11/2011 ITV Lunchtime News
16/11/2011 BBC Six O'Clock News
16/11/2011 ITV Evening News
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Lincolnshire
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Tees
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Scotland
16/11/2011 BBC Radio Wales
08/11/2011 BBC Radio Nottingham
02/11/2011 LBC (James Whale Show)
26/10/2011 BBC Radio Essex
26/10/2011 BBC Radio Bristol
26/10/2011 BBC Three Counties
26/10/2011 BBC Radio Sheffield
26/08/2011 BBC Radio Essex
26/08/2011 BBC Radio Bristol
26/08/2011 BBC Three Counties
10/08/2011 BBC One Look North)
19/07/2011 BBC Radio Derby)
01/07/2011 BBC Radio Scotland (Call Kaye)
25/05/2011 BBC Radio Norfolk
25/05/2011 BBC Northern Ireland (Stephen Nolan Show)
06/05/2011 BBC Three Counties
03/05/2011 Radio City (Liverpool)
25/03/2011 Northsound Radio (Aberdeen)
25/03/2011 Forth FM (Central Scotland)
25/03/2011 Radio Borders
25/03/2011 STV North (North of Scotland News)
24/03/2011 Forth FM (Central Scotland)
24/03/2011 Northsound (Aberdeen)
24/03/2011 BBC Radio WM (West Midlands)
09/03/2011 Channel 4 News
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Five Live (Drive)
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Cumbria
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Sussex
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Devon
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Merseyside
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Lincolnshire
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Sheffield
09/03/2011 BBC Radio Shropshire
08/03/2011 BBC Radio Five Live (Gabby Logan)
02/03/2011 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
02/03/2011 BBC Radio Merseyside
02/03/2011 BBC Radio Sheffield
02/03/2011 BBC Radio Wales
02/03/2011 BBC Radio London
02/03/2011 BBC Radio Jersey
25/01/2011 RTHK Radio 3 (Hong Kong)
Articles by Forest
10/04/2012 Pointless package deal on smoking will just be the start (Yorkshire Post)
22/03/2012 Tobacco duty: don't use taxation as form of social engineering (Huffington Post)
18/11/2011 How dare the BMA dictate how we live our lives? (Huffington Post)
08/07/2011 Smoking in cars: head-to-head with BMA (The Times)
15/03/2011 The bully state reemerges in Lansley's anti-smoking crusade (Politics.co.uk)
09/03/2011 Whatever happened to the party of business, de-regulation and personal responsibility? (ConservativeHome)
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