Tobacco farming and development Reply

Earlier this week, the Herald featured this piece by our Chief Executive, Sheila Duffy, focusing on this year’s World No Tobacco Day. See more about how tobacco is a threat to development, below:

The “smokers survey” that can’t tell us anything about “smokers” Reply

We hear that FOREST is paying for a survey with the aim “To find out what smokers really think”.

This is a laudable aim – and chimes with an interest of ours.

The astroturf is greener on the other side Reply

As we wait for publication of the Westminster Government’s proposals for introducing plain, standardised packaging for tobacco products, ASH Scotland is warning about the latest piece of tobacco company astro-turfing against this well-evidenced child protection measure.

Big Tobacco battles plain packs Reply

Scotland’s Public Health Minister, Michael Matheson, has today vowed to press ahead with legislation for standardised tobacco packaging, despite the efforts of Big Tobacco to undermine the initiative.
There’s no doubt the minister is right to criticise tobacco companies for trying to do anything they can to defeat the health measure.

Shadowy lobbying against Tobacco Products Directive Reply

A guest blog by Andy Rowell, research fellow at the Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath, and editor of TobaccoTactics.org

• Landmark TPD debated in Europe this week.
• Multi-million-pound lobbying campaign inflicted on Brussels by tobacco industry.
• This week is crunch time in Brussels for public health.

 

How many corner shops face closure because of tobacco smuggling? 1

Is the illicit trade in tobacco products close to forcing ‘one in six’ stores in the UK out of business as claimed by the ‘Tobacco Retailers’ Alliance’?

Political cover-up exposed ! Reply

It’s been a long time coming but Scotland is finally covering up tobacco displays in large shops and banning unstaffed tobacco vending machines.

It’s official – there IS evidence for standardised packaging Reply

News just in from the Advertising Standards Authority, who have upheld a complaint lodged by health campaigners against a series of adverts

A little bit of Christmas cheer Reply

We were delighted to see the lovely Christmas card from our good friends at FOREST (“voice and friend of the smoker”).