How the anti-smokers are stubbing out liberty

Manifesto Club latest

Against the hyperregulation of alcohol, Josie Appleton's speech to Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum
Manifesto Club's visiting artist campaign was discussed in the House of Lords, 22 July 2010
Strangled and stifled by red tape, by Boyd Tonkin, Independent, 23 July 2010
Visa system – 'damaging to culture', by Lord Clement-Jones, ePolitix.com, 22 July 2010
The dangers of a burqa ban, Valerie Hartwich, Open Democracy, 19 July 2010
What’s criminal about a drink in the park?, Nicholas Thorne, spiked, 15 July 2010
Limiting the damage of binge drinking, Morning Advertiser 14 July 2010
Josie Appleton is interviewed on the burqa ban in Ode magazine (Dutch), August 2010

My article on spiked about a new report by YouGov and ASH which confuses acquiescence to the smoking ban with support for official interference.

See also Simon Clark's blog piece on the dubious nature of such 'advocacy research'.