Monthly Archives: May 2010

I’m constantly surprised at the parallels between the climate science controversy and the smoking controversy. I was reading Spiked earlier today. Mike Hulme, professor of climate change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, is … Continue reading →

I’m constantly surprised at the parallels between the climate science controversy and the smoking controversy. I was reading Spiked earlier today. Mike Hulme, professor of climate change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, is … Continue reading →

I thought that 500 of these buggers meeting up in Glasgow was enough. But it seems that there was another antismokers’ bash just yesterday in Dublin: The 2nd International Conference on Tobacco Control, sponsored by Pfizer. In advance of the … Continue reading →

Not content with having overseen the disastrous MTAS computer system failure, and ordered hundreds of millions of unnecessary swine flu shots, and destroyed the social lives of millions of smokers and closed thousands of pubs, outgoing Chief Medical Officer Sir … Continue reading →

Another sunny afternoon, and I sat by the river with a pint of beer and a cigarette. The river has changed its appearance over the past couple of weeks. Tipper trucks have been dropping in granite boulders to shore up … Continue reading →

Another sunny afternoon, and I sat by the river with a pint of beer and a cigarette. The river has changed its appearance over the past couple of weeks. Tipper trucks have been dropping in granite boulders to shore up … Continue reading →

Yesterday I was reminded in Freedom-to-Choose about something in the Guardian a few months back by antismoking zealot Duncan Bannantyne: In my view smokers who currently stand outside a pub or restaurant having a fag should have to stand at … Continue reading →

Something caught my eye over at Leg-iron’s place. The smoking ban, you see, is not about passive smoking. It’s not about health. It is not even about smoking. It is about control… These rules were not brought in for your … Continue reading →

One of the terrifying things, for me at least, about the smoking ban has been the ease with which non-smokers have been prepared to use the law to enforce their personal preferences. They didn’t like smoking, and so were happy … Continue reading →