Review of the week

From the Forest website:

• Forest slams increase in tobacco duty
• Free nicotine patches and extra counselling don't help smokers quit

From The Free Society:

• Let us pray (Dennis hayes)
• The tax on happiness (Tom Miers)

From Hands Off Our Packs:

• Plain packs "final nail for local stores"

Elsewhere:

• Shisha scaremongering: a load of hubble-bubble (Spiked)
• Graphic cigarette labels: a step backwards in combating nicotine addiction (Washington Times)

Quote of the week:

"I'm afraid I have some rather serious news for you. Apparently the World Health Organisation is to pass an edict making death retrospective. It seems those of us who smoke, drink and eat aren't dying fast enough to fit the statistics."

Grandad (Smoking Out The Truth) on the Forest Eireann blog