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Comment on FOREST’s fringe participation in the Reform UK Annual Conference in the Birmingham NEC

We are going to make it through the war on smokers and the abuse of citizens with the arbitrary punishment…

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Avoid generational tobacco bans by setting the legal age to smoke to 21 – Sign the petition!

The following government petition aims to avoid inflicting a generational tobacco purchase ban on UK citizens by raising the legal…

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Letter to MP about the incremental tobacco purchase ban contained in the Tobacco and Vapes bill

Dear Rt Hon Danny Beales, MP, My name is Constantine Kitis and I am one of your constituents resident in…

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Demographic survey establishing the vaping percentage in Great Britain

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

A new survey conducted by the anti-smoking agency ASH - Action on Smoking and Health, reveals the percentages of e-cigarette users in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) as 8.3% of…

Regulatory News

Registered EU Petition by the EC calls for variable age limit for purchasing tobacco

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

The European Commission said it has drawn up the European citizens' resolution called "A call for a smoke-free environment and the first European smoke-free generation by 2030" which should have…

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The number of Germans who smoke has increased upright after the pandemic

The number of smokers in Germany increased sharply after the pandemic from before the beginning of 2020 when it was the rate of 27% to 34.5% of Germans over the…

The FOREST Association has closed down its European branch, Forest E.U.

18 Aug 202226 Apr 2023

The lifestyle choices FOREST association has shut down its European division Forest EU because of the suffix to its website not being operable for bodies originating from countries outside the…

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NZ Labor Government pursues legislation enacted to the expense of smokers

13 Aug 202217 Aug 2022

While the Labour Party of Great Britain was the first government to enact initial counter-smoking legislation being a smoking ban and the Labor government of Australia in 2012 was the…

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Malaysia revokes passing of legislation with progressive age limit for tobacco

6 Aug 20226 Aug 2022

Malaysia has withdrawn an amendment to a bill tabled in parliament for debate that would have raised the age limit for purchasing tobacco products to target those born before 2007.…

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Filipino vape bill passed into law

2 Aug 20229 Aug 2022

Neither former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines nor current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ratified the law passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Philippines in…

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What the opposition supports on the New Zealand endgame law for smoking

1 Aug 202223 Sep 2023

New Zealand Labor's controversial bill to gradually raise the age limit for legal supply of tobacco products from the market each year until no one is legally allowed to supply…

Marewa Glover talks on vaping and smoking legislation in New Zealand

1 Aug 202228 Oct 2022

Indigenous New Zealand head of the Philip Morris indirectly funded COREISS Centre of Research Excellence – Indigenous Sovereignty and Smoking Marewa Glover gave an interview to Canada's Regulator Watch Network…

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Countries imposing tobacco plain packaging received funding from the W.H.O. according to Mike Ridgway

23 Jul 202214 Aug 2022

The director of the Consumer Packaging Manufacturer Alliance, Mike Ridgway, having more than 40 years of experience in his field for Europe and especially Great Britain, gave an interview on…

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Medical researcher reveals causes of scientific inclination towards anti-smoking campaign’s objectives

17 Jul 202215 Aug 2023

People smoke for the nicotine, but die from the tar. Michael Russell Dr Brad Rodu who won the Michael Russell Award at the GFN22 international pro-vaping conference in Warsaw talks…

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JUUL to be taken off the US market with the FDA rejecting its trading application

17 Jul 202217 Jul 2022

The infamous JUUL e-cigarettes are being tried by the US Food and Drug Administration to be removed from the US market by rejecting the applications by the company, which is…

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The UK joins New Zealand threatening progressive age limit for the sale of tobacco

20 Jun 20229 Apr 2023

The conclusion regarding the further fight against smoking, entrusted in February by the British Minister of Health Sahid Javid to the executive in favour of charitable activities and actions of…

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Dialogue and Democracy needed to confront crucial issues according to PMI poll

19 Jun 202221 Dec 2023

A poll conducted on behalf of Philip Morris by Povaddo last February, the results of which were published on 13 June, showed that the vast majority of the public in…

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The Netherlands consider imposing cigarette prices similar to those in Oceania

16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022

Cigarettes in the Netherlands cost an average of 8 Euros and 20% of Dutch people smoke regularly. The Ministry of Health intends to increase their price by 2 euros by…

W.H.O. accuses the tobacco industry of “Green laundering”

3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022

The WHO accuses the multinational tobacco industry of "Greenwashing" challenging the viability of businesses in a report issued in collaboration with the S.T.O.P. The WHO rejected the responsibility that the…

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Pollsters asking the British public to decide about banning cigarettes

22 May 202226 May 2022

Polls have invaded Britain from Australia that are asking the question of banning cigarettes to the sample about whether they would agree or disagree. Such polls were conducted in Oceania…

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Finland imposes plain tobacco packaging by including e-cigs in the logo ban

15 May 202230 Sep 2022

In Finland, smoking is allowed in secular centres provided there is a separate smoking area with adequate ventilation. Also, the minimum age for buying cigarettes is 16 years. From May…

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Conservative Party Chairman opposes Sadiq Khan’s cannabis decriminalisation

13 May 202217 May 2022

Partial decriminalization of cannabis was initially implemented in 4 of the 32 boroughs of Greater London, including Greenwich by the mayor of the British capital, Sadiq Khan, with a possible…

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Vaping proven as problematic as smoking for respiratory and heart problems

13 May 202215 May 2022

Smoking and the use of e-cigarettes while avoiding lung cancer are equated with smoking with regard to cardiorespiratory problems such as heart disease, asthma, pneumonia and COPD. proved to be…

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Prevailing confusion over e-cigs in the Far East

7 May 202215 May 2022

The Philippine Ministry of Health is urging President Rodrigo Duterte to veto parliament's passage of an e-cigarette law that would legalize e-cigarettes by substituting smoking, which are currently banned until…

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E-cig bans lifted while Australian study asserts on their effectiveness

13 Apr 20221 May 2023

From August 3, 2022, the sale and consumption of electronic smoking alternatives will be legal in Malaysia after persistent efforts by organizations, associations and unions to persuade the government to…

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Danish Health minister obstructed from E.U. T.P.D. to impose increasing age-limit on tobacco consumption

10 Apr 202224 Mar 2024

Danish health minister Magnus Heunicke has met with opposition from EU law to a permanent ban on smoking by Danes with a progressively increasing age limit as he has planned…

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Brazil is considering legalising e-cigs

10 Apr 202215 May 2022

E-cigarettes, although allowed to be sold to most people, are not allowed everywhere. There are 47 countries in the world that ban the consumption of e-cigarettes. The WHO erroneously in…

“The anti-smoking campaign has written our laws” argues lifestyle choices association representative Simon Clark

6 Mar 202215 May 2022

In an interesting and revealing interview with the Asian magazine Tobacco Asia, published by the Inter Tabac exhibition in Dortmund, the president of the British smokers' association FOREST, Simon Clark,…

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Acclaimed medical researcher Costas Farsalinos disagrees with vaporiser flavour prohibitions

25 Feb 202215 May 2022

"Adults smoke because they like to smoke. I understand the case of certain aromatic flavours [from e-cigarettes] that respond to youth. But let's be honest. Adults also like the flavours.…

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The first combustible cigarette has been classified as a modified risk tobacco product by the US Food and Drug Administration

29 Jan 202215 May 2022

The first combustible cigarette was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration with the designation of mutated health risk (Modified Risk Tobacco Product - MRTP) having a negligible amount…

“The war on smoking is a war on choice and pleasure” claims smoker representative

29 Jan 202215 Nov 2023

The representative of the smoking association F.O.R.E.S.T. from the UK says in an article in a magazine that users of all nicotine products, i.e. electronic and cigarette, must fight in…

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New Zealand planning to phase out smoking by step of age – what if someone is a Maori aboriginal?

18 Dec 202115 May 2022

Unfortunately smoking is not accessible anymore in New Zealand for those who will be aged below 14 inclusive as of 2022 because whoever was born after 2008 inclusive may not…

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Harsh criticism landing at the FCTC COP-9 conference by human rights activists

15 Dec 202115 May 2022

The WHO anti-smoking conference during the framework agreement for the control of tobacco signed by most countries of the world together with Greece having the USA and Indonesia as examples…

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Deliberate demand to ban cigarette sales in Australia after Supermarkets can retain lower prices

16 Nov 202115 May 2022

Australian Health Experts from the University of Queensland are doing well to discredit its better reputation by proposing dates should be set for cigarette sales to cease in each Australian…

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Forest Chairman Simon Clark confronts smoking abolition supporter representing the mental health sector

6 Aug 20217 May 2023

Forest U.K. Chairman Simon Clark confronted smoking abolition supporter Rebecca Jane representing the mental health sector from RJ8 on GB News when both were interviewed with Mark Dolan. It was…

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PMI heat not burn turmoil finding its place in the right ashtray!

6 Aug 202115 May 2022

PMI Vice-President initially said there is not a question on heat not burn tobacco but of heat and burn tobacco when introduced to the invention to be poised to begin…

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W.H.O. still adamant that vaping imitates the act of smoking calling for research to establish types of risks

28 Jul 202115 May 2022

The W.H.O. are apparently preparing for the anti-smoking COP-9 conference this year in 2021 having postponed to do so from 2020 because of the pandemic by scrutinising calls for measures…

Renowned artist Anita Chowdry defends smoking as inspiration in Forest’s webinar on ‘consumer voices uncut’

11 Jul 202113 Oct 2022

Forest U.K. Chairman Simon Clark introduced renowned artist, painter and sculptor Anita Chowdry to the two-hour seminar by Forest saying that "Anita is a visual artist, a researcher and educator…

Painter Anita Chowdry and activist Emily Wieja will join Forest to protest on expected smoking extortion measures

1 Jul 202113 Oct 2022

Painter Anita Chowdry and activist Emily Wieja join Forest U.K.'s online webinar this Thursday the 8-th of July 2021 called "Consumer voices uncut" to protest on expected to be published…

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Smoke-free tyrants cling onto their constitutional cell

18 Jun 202116 May 2022

Following 5 counties and Oxfordshire dictating to pubs and clubs about the nature of their job and function of their purpose by invading the specificity of their premises and overall…

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Forest Chairman and Leader of the Foundation for a Smoke-free world talk on Euro-news about the smoke-free counties

8 Jun 202115 May 2022

Euro-News decided all of the sudden to cover the failed story of the smoke-free counties in England alone deciding to abolish smoking from drinking and entertainment venues in which customers…

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Cumbria councillors and pub owner Dianne Irving oppose the establishment of the smoke-free counties

7 Jun 202115 May 2022

"I wouldn’t like to see a large section of the community ostracised. I feel we should look at a ‘hybrid’ solution. There should be places where smokers can go and…