The pub smoking ban continues to divide opinion, according to a new poll published today. A survey of over 2,000 adults commissioned by the smokers’ rights group Forest and conducted by Yonder Consulting, found that: 35% of respondents think pubs and private members’...

Forest has paid tribute to David Hockney, the internationally acclaimed artist whose death was reported this morning.   Simon Clark, director of Forest, said:   "David attended several of our events and we were proud and immensely grateful that he supported our...

Campaigners have vowed to "fight on" following today's announcement that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has been granted Royal Assent. The new law will ban the sale of tobacco to all future generations of adults, creating what the government hopes will be "the UK's first...

Speaking on the 20th anniversary of the smoking ban in Scotland, Simon Clark, director of the smokers; rights group Forest which campaigned against the ban, said: “The 20th anniversary of the workplace smoking ban is nothing to celebrate. The ban was a disaster for...

Campaigners have urged peers to reject a generational ban on the sale of tobacco and raise the legal age of sale from 18 to 21 instead. In a letter to peers ahead of the report stage of Tobacco and Vapes Bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday [24th February], Simon...

The Chancellor’s inflation-busting hike in tobacco duty could drive even more people to vote for Reform, say campaigners. Accusing the Government of punishing smokers from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Responding to latest ONS figures on adult smoking habits, which show that the proportion of the adult population in the UK who smoke cigarettes fell to 10.6 per cent (5.3 million) in 2024, Simon Clark, director of the smokers’ rights group Forest, said:

Public opinion is divided on the government’s generational smoking ban, according to a series of polls commissioned by the smokers’ rights group Forest.