Review of the week

Headlines from the Forest website:

• Move to ban smoking in outdoor dining areas, beer gardens, at bus stops and in doorways
• Forest slams study that supports ban on smoking outside pubs and bars
• Plain cigarette packets 'illiberal' says leading think tank

From The Free Society:

• Give us a fag break (Tom Miers)
• Leveson, media influence and the constitution (Peter Lloyd)

From Hands Off Our Packs:

• Plain packaging "will bring no benefits" says think tank
• Tobacco control, wrong again
• Let's pack in plain packaging says Standard columnist

Quotes of the week

• "ASH Scotland promotes the eccentric view that alluring packaging attracts children to smoking. Really? With stark 'SMOKING KILLS' logos emblazoned on them?"

Robert Dow thinks we should lighten up and let smokers enjoy their habit (Scotsman)

• "She liked to do things her own way: When a smoking ban came into force at the Sunday Times, she blithely turned up with three packets of cigarettes and puffed away at her desk; typically, no one dared stop her."

Ian Birrell writing about his former colleague Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times who was killed in Syria this week (Daily Mail)

And finally ...

Busy week for Chris Snowdon following the publication of his ASI report on plain packaging. You may wish to comment on his article that appeared in the Yorkshire Post yesterday:

The plain truth about repackaging cigarettes (Scotsman)