Big Brother Watch: Govt should stop viewing smokers as easy targets - politics.co.uk

Big Brother Watch: Govt should stop viewing smokers as easy targets - politics.co.uk

Big Brother Watch: Govt should stop viewing smokers as easy targets

Wednesday, 23, Mar 2011 03:10

Daniel Hamilton of the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch said in response to the Budget:

"Since 1999, tax on a pint of beer has increased 57%. The levy imposed on a 20 pack of cigarettes has gone up 54%. Someone drinking seven pints of beer a week is paying around £58 a year more than they did in 1999, while the cost of smoking a packet of cigarettes has increased by around £327.

Simon Clark - Taking Liberties - Tobacco duty increase hits law-abiding consumers who use British shops

Simon Clark - Taking Liberties - Tobacco duty increase hits law-abiding consumers who use British shops

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 13:47

Forest's response to the increase in tobacco duty announced today by the Chancellor:

INCREASE IN TOBACCO DUTY PENALISES LAW-ABIDING CONSUMERS, SAYS FOREST

Comment: The bully state reemerges in Andrew Lansley's anti-smoking crusade - politics.co.uk

Comment: The bully state reemerges in Andrew Lansley's anti-smoking crusade - politics.co.uk

Simon Clark is director of the smokers' group Forest and its sister campaign The Free Society.

Tuesday, 15, Mar 2011 03:05

Think tanks, pressure groups and Conservative activists are appalled by the government's U-turn on tobacco.

By Simon Clark
Health secretary Andrew Lansley must have been confident when he strode to work on No Smoking Day last week that his long-awaited Tobacco Control Plan would attract little criticism.
Tobacco, after all, is an easy target, and smokers - well, who cares about them? They're just a dwindling minority - deluded, addicted and dirty. No room for them in David Cameron's 'big society'.

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Turning drinkers into social lepers | spiked

Turning drinkers into social lepers | spiked

Tim Black
Turning drinkers into social lepers A Coalition of the Concerned is determined that those who enjoy a drink should join smokers as modern outcasts.