Blog – Bring Back Smoking Freedom

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The inalienable property of our rights is inalienable from the law

The freedom of one ends where the freedom of the other begins. This is the basic principle that governs the content of legislation and imposes the need for its delimitation by…

The dark side of the New Zealand smoking ban

On the 13th of December 2022 the Labor-led government of New Zealand under then-prime minister Jacinda Ardern banned smoking and its sale to all the next generations of New Zealanders…

Dictating laws is done by dictators according to our language

It is ever so clear to realise that anti-smoking legislation like the smoking ban, tobacco plain packaging legislation and excessive taxation hikes are being dictated to those who have to…

Banning things as opposed to their prohibition

In terms of the smoking ban the term ban functions in the same way as the term prohibited, excluding what is referenced from occurring, but the two words mean approximately…

Smoking, eating more or less and its link to meat consumption and ecocide

On the unlucky 1st of July of 2007 the Labour government under prime minister Gordon Brown just for some days before used its parliamentary majority to upvote the notorious and…

The concept of coercion applied to smoking

Smokers are innocent for being fined or being threatened to do so and everyone carries the same rights with the next counterpart in terms of smoking both inside and out…

Prefer peace over the war on smoking

Facing the war against smoking the state and its citizens should prefer peace. The law should only exist to regulate that smoking is only open to adults so that underage…

Smoking bans in contrast to the rest of the law

It is well known that the respective governments of almost all countries of the world were obliged by the World Health Organization to adopt laws, constituting for most foreign legislative…

The deception of the people with counter-smoking legislation

In 2007 the parliament was asked to vote on prohibiting indoor smoking and most of the MPs voted to do so and yes. The proposition came from the Labour Party…

Elaborate cigarette prices forcing their way through rationality

In Ireland the price of cigarettes rises by a constant 50 cents of a Euro every year and that appears to be happening excluding the inflation on the product which…

A tobacco control misconception

The people at tobacco control are distorting the relation between cigarettes and the people who use them and are perverting that cigarettes are only for harming your health and for…

What is the implication of a smoke-free nation?

Most countries in the West and some of them in the East that claim western culture and civilisation are setting ongoing smoke-free plans for their population to rid themselves in…

Shops are not for collecting taxes, they are for trading goods

Shops exist to trade goods and are no betting station for the state or agency for collecting money from those doing something just because of doing it. The primary function…

The smoking ban international epidemic

The notorious and unconstitutional, apparently anti-smoking laws came about by spreading them in almost every country in the world, implementing foreign legislative standards. The first of all was instituted in…

How smoking bans work to regulate our lives

Let's examine what is aimed to be achieved at by anti-smoking legislation that has been upheld by external influences of each state that imposes it to its citizens. The anti-smoking…

IEA video: Consumer surplus living under attack from smoking bans

Laws are to be used only for interpersonal relationships that affect one person from the next one who is doing something onto them or against them or deriving their actions…

The Smoking ban when discerning the concept of the law from a rule

Smoking bans enacted from most countries it is evident post preventative no-smoking signs in the general environment or the built urban environment under legislative support regardless of the opinions and…

Our lost freedom is measured in terms of its liberty

I am reaching the conclusion that the reason for our enslavement to the smoking ban results from the exchange of being fined for smoking resulting in displacing ourselves from our…

Smoking bans and the arbitrary punishment of the state

In South Africa you can get half a year in prison for smoking inside. It is a matter for South Africans of whether they prefer racism from their oppressors and…

Smoking bans are threatening life on the planet

Smoking bans imposed on citizens against their will to move instead of circulating freely endanger life on the planet because it does not matter if it is a chemical or…

The body and the soul in Christianity, and body and mind about smoking bans

What type of Christians would you say anti-smoking supporters are if they send others out of their environment for smoking in front of them? Can they not demonstrate the value…

What type of Christians would you say the anti-smoking proponents are?

Pictured above is an old cigarette advertisement wishing everyone a Merry Christmas but those were the good old days and times when nobody would bother to have added a health…

The anti-smoking incentive explained

It is an established fact that smoking is practised in a solitary way by one person meaning that they are doing it on their own without the use of anyone…