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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Lobby group Ash has called on Downing Street to stop drivers from smoking behind the wheel, claiming it is as bad as puffing away in pubs.But pro-smokers are furious, saying the politically correct move would be a step too far following the nationwide ban on smoking in bars and in the workplace.Simon Clark, director of pressure group Forest, said smokers were facing a “war” and demanded...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the new warnings as "unnecessarily intrusive" and "gratuitously offensive".Forest director Simon Clark said: "We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product."They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the new warnings as 'unnecessarily intrusive' and 'gratuitously offensive'.Forest director Simon Clark said: 'We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product.'They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers...
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the new warnings as "unnecessarily intrusive" and "gratuitously offensive".Forest director Simon Clark said: "We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product."They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the new warnings as "unnecessarily intrusive" and "gratuitously offensive".Forest director Simon Clark said: "We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product."They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the new warnings as "unnecessarily intrusive" and "gratuitously offensive".Forest director Simon Clark said: "We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product."They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - UK & world news (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the new warnings as "unnecessarily intrusive" and "gratuitously offensive".Forest director Simon Clark said: "We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product."They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers...
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the new warnings as "unnecessarily intrusive" and "gratuitously offensive".Forest director Simon Clark said: "We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product."They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
... visual reminder of smoking-related illnesses and the evidence was that such pictures work.But Simon Clark, of smokers' lobby group Forest, said in the long-term the images would "just become wallpaper and be ignored". Is it right to target smokers in this way? Will the pictures make a difference? Have you tried to give up smoking? What do you think about these images?
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Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Authoritarian anti-liberal slant! Via Taking Liberties Simon Clark is just putting the finishing touches to the Forest submission to the government consultation on future tobacco control in the UK. If anyone is in any doubt about the extent to which this government will consider harassing and targeting smokers, read page 45 of the consultation document: “Question 12: Do [...]
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The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
What a shower. From Simon Clark's Taking Liberties blog, comes this unsurprising element of the government's latest consultation on smoking:"Question 12: Do you believe that more should be done by the Government to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke within private dwellings or in vehicles used primarily for private purposes? If so, what do you think could be done?"This is, I assume,...
