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Tag Archives: ASH
A New Wolf
Taking Liberties: ASH campaign grant slashed from £350,000 to £70,000 This looks like a large (and long-overdue) cut in funding for ASH. But perhaps it just reflects the fact that there’s a new kid in town: the coronavirus pandemic. And this … Continue reading
PHE and Coronavirus
Guardian: Officials are attempting to trace people who had close contact with two Chinese nationals diagnosed with the new strain of coronavirus in the UK. The pair, who are related, were taken ill while staying at a hotel in York … Continue reading
Report A Hate Crime
Train of thought 1: The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has released a report, Designating Hate: New Policy Responses to Stop Hate Crime, which recommends radical initiatives to tackle “hate” groups, even if they have not committed any kind of violent activity… The … Continue reading
The Bullying Bastards in Tobacco Control
I came across this in ZeroHedge yesterday: The following, written in 1940 [by Ludwig von Mises], is excerpted from Interventionism, An Economic Analysis, which was originally part of Nationaloekonomie, the German predecessor to Human Action. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini constantly … Continue reading
Are Politicians beginning to regret Smoking Bans?
A few days ago, Smoking Lamp drew attention to a call by some French periodical for smoking to be banned outside French cafes as well as inside: Readers’ views: Why it’s time to ban smoking on cafe terraces in France … Continue reading
Why Are They All So Nasty?
They all seem to be such nasty people in Tobacco Control. Everything they do is nasty. Smoking bans are nasty things: exiling people to the outdoors is a very nasty thing to do to anybody. And the No Smoking signs … Continue reading
Start A New Graveyard?
Via Smoking Lamp a few days back: Six years ago, more than a dozen men with AK-47s shot their way into Akinbode Oluwafemi’s home in Lagos, Nigeria. They killed his house guard and his brother-in-law, and briefly held a muzzle … Continue reading
Blood Phoenix
The very interesting discussion that is taking place on these threads has thrown up all sorts of wonderful suggestions for names for some kind of ‘Smokers’ Army’. And in addition to the numerous suggestions for names it has also been … Continue reading
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Self-Appointed?
An article by Chris Snowdon about Public Health England in the Spectator: Eating, drinking, smoking and lazing around are personal matters that may or may not have personal consequences. In the liberal tradition, this makes them nobody else’s business and, … Continue reading
Cultural Vandalism
We live in a time of rapid change. One piece of technology is replaced with another, with almost dizzying rapidity. Perhaps it’s happening too fast. I had an experience of it early in life, when I was living in the … Continue reading
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