Smokers are facing an extra 50p on a pack of budget cigarettes this year, and with many smokers in poorer income groups it is truly a tax that targets the poor! While the state obviously hopes to force smokers to quit, many smokers either can’t quit – or simply don’t want to. But some nicotine [...]

Our latest interview, with David Atherton of Freedom to Choose, is now up on the website. In the interview we discuss the anti-smoking movement, the fallacy of third hand smoke and the threat that the anti-smoking movement poses to individual liberty. And of course we also talk about the electronic cigarette. To check out the [...]

I have just completed an interview with Chris Snowden, author of Velvet Glove Iron Fist. Velvet Glove Iron Fist is probably the most comprehensive book there is about the anti-smoking movement. It chronicles the anti-smoking movement from the first European discrimination against smoking – when the inquisition arrested one of Columbus’ crew – through the [...]