Projects – Bring Back Smoking Freedom

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 of the law which is unfounded and unconstitutional once they…

Bond film actors deliver better example for our times making the right argument for others

Watch a movie complete with normal smoking! It is the unfinalised "The Property of a Lady" unreleased Bond film planned for 1991 but never released, because of MGM being taken…

Judging from where it was initially “banned”, Smoking is Normal!

How many times has someone claimed to somebody else he or she would be talking to that smoking is a normal activity performed by normal people, only to be contradicted…

Expert opinions opposing hospital grounds comprehensive smoking bans

In Scotland, and as of late 2022, comprehensive hospital grounds smoking bans include the area outside each hospital at a radius of 15 metres out of the hospital, which could…

Why smoking in public is not an actual but hypothetical “offence”

What has often been described as creeping prohibition has become common place and is "progressing" in more and more areas of our daily lives of what one can and cannot…

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 age to smoke to 21 instead. This is what should…

Banning smoking on the basis of tobacco being another drug

From 2004 in Ireland and from 2008 in the UK - with the 2006 smoke-free spaces act that passed parliament in 2007 - and from later dates around the rest…

Tobacco taxes that equal fines for the same reason

Punitive taxes that drive cigarette prices to unaffordable and disproportionate prices for the smoker and consumer are not only having the effect of discouraging smoking but also of punishing those…

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 Uxbridge, and I am writing to you about the Tobacco…

The arbitrary punishment of the law applied to smoking

For something to be an offence or crime, it must return a victim. A common characteristic of most or all offences or crimes is that the person committing it has…

Trump won and can defeat the politicised anti-smoking campaign

Donald Trump won the presidential election and now on his second term in office is the chance to reverse the most severe anti-smoking policies and restrictions taking into account his…

Submission to the BBC on extending smoking ban outside schools and hospitals

Punishable events should always be guilty of their performance and should never consist of innocent activities and regular social exchanges, and smoking is an innocent activity that has no reason…

Sign the government petition against the annually progressive increase in the minimum age required to buy tobacco

After intense protest and intense negative reactions on behalf of the hospitality sector also consisting of venue and bar/pub and club and restaurant owners, the outdoor smoking bans intended by…

The case against the outdoor smoking bans being plotted by the Labour government

Punishing innocent people for their innocent actions should not be allowed to politicians. Smoking has no consequences whether it is done indoors or outdoors and both should be allowed and…

“Tobacco 21” works fine on both sides of the smoking and health debate

Towards the end of 2019 US President Donald Trump who served until 2020 raised the minimum age requirement to buy tobacco to 21 in most US states at the federal…

Raising the smoking age to 21 instead of one year every year

The minimum smoking age might as well be raised to 21 without any loss of liberty for the people of a nation. People aged from 18 to 21 years old…

The war on smoking in relevance to the war in Gaza

The price for a packet of cigarettes has reached $25 USD in the war-torn Gaza Strip, which raises the question while becoming news if that cost is the highest it…

Avoid incremental tobacco purchase ban by setting the age limit to 21

The minimum age requirement to buy tobacco should therefore be raised to 21 instead of increasing it by one year every year. The amendment to the Tobacco and Vapes bill…

UK residents or citizens: Sign the government petition against the incremental tobacco ban

With the Tobacco and Vapes Bill going through its second reading through parliament tomorrow on Tuesday the 16th of April, the wider expectation and wish is that it will remain…

The threat of a generational smoking ban coming to the UK

The UK prime minister Rishi Sunak announced in the 2023 Conservative Party conference which was held in the city of Manchester that he agreed to implement an incremental tobacco purchase…

The government catchphrase “we will make it an offence to…” and what lies behind it

The British, Australian and New Zealand governments have repeatedly mentioned that they will "make it an offence" for their citizens to perform well-intentioned activities as part of everyday life. They…

Voting for binary logic?

Written laws apply social rules to life and society has defined the content of those written laws along with the need imposing their enforcement and implementation. All written laws that…

Comment of solidarity and support while incremental smoking ban goes through parliament

We are all equally devastated for sure to be made aware that this catastrophic bill comprises of the prime minister's choice and initiative and has entered parliament already going for…

Comment in solidarity to the objective of the FOREST reception

It is not right for whoever turns 18 from now on to be ineligible against his or her own wishes and rights to buy tobacco products, but only those who…

Comment on majority leader Liz Truss setting up popular-conservative facade

Many congratulations to our former prime minister Liz Truss who led a majority government for the last time before Rishi Sunak took over from her and decided that an adult…

Comment in response to the constitutional crime of proposing adult smoking prohibition

I agree with Pat Nurse and her comment above, and what about our mental health, is this not part of our health as well, because people who are ordered about…

Comment on Simon Clark’s “The public has spoken but the PM isn’t listening”

The public has spoken and the government should listen to that and to what the people prefer and have to say, is the fundamentals of democracy and of having democracy…

Comment in support of Charles Amos campaigning against adult smoking prohibition

It is a grave wrong and I am opposing it by doing my best! The decisions that belong to me or anyone should not be stolen from us by the…

Comment in support of Charles Amos campaigning against phasing out smoking

https://www.1828.org.uk/2023/10/11/the-terrible-reasoning-behind-sunaks-smoking-ban/comment-page-1/?unapproved=3002&moderation-hash=674c55a069131531bbe605f67f037bca#comment-3002 You are very right, I couldn’t agree more. What a disgrace to condemn the people of Britain, young people and those who have not yet been born, to anything…

The police state and antismoking regime of Canberra and the London government

The true size of Australia as pictured in the above sketch: Big in size of the area but with much less people, only 13 million population. Big area in New…

Comment on alleged illegal vapourisers pouring into California and spreading throughout the U.S. market

Apparently it doesn't make a difference whether the products are legal or illegal, people do not follow laws that have not been made by them like dictated anti-smoking legislation and…

Comment on the usefulness of vaping

What is there to know about vaping that's new other than it isn't the same person's choice to practise it, but they do it because they have been told by…

To better things for the New Year 2024!

Thank you for your wishes and for also wishing ourselves a nanny state free New Year! This wish also goes out to the W.H.O. who recently postponed their 10th antismoking…

Comment made to FOREST under their video opposing adult smoking prohibition

Watch the FOREST panel discussion and questions and answers here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTW2nxFi7CI The common characteristic of all these prohibitive laws is that they punish innocent people for their innocent actions, punishing…

How consuming cigarettes ended up as a medical diagnosis for British practitioners

The British drink a lot of tea, and that's a well-known fact. In fact, the British drink tea instead of coffee and find that to be normal, or do so…

Comment: Sky News asking itself “how a smoking ban would work” as if there is not one that is currently valid

Sky News asking "how a smoking ban would work" as if there is not one already in place! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoHO1yp3nK8 Pretending with the phrasing that there is no smoking ban in…

The unconstitutional characteristic of counter-smoking legislation

As is well known, Britain has no modern written constitution to supervise the way political power is exercised and what the law can say. The constitution held valid until today…

Message to the BBC on Have Your Say on generational quagmire for smoking plan of the prime minister

Dear BBC Have Your Say, Thank you for inviting your readers to submit their opinion about the prime minister's plan to enforce a generational quagmire for smoking to exclude future…

The threat of a generational smoking ban coming to the UK

The UK prime minister Rishi Sunak announced in the 2023 Conservative Party conference which was held in the city of Manchester that he agreed to implement the generational quagmire plan…