Join our No Smoking Day webinar on tobacco control

This evening we are hosting an online discussion about tobacco control.

We will be joined by a panel of speakers including Mark Oates, director of WeVape and the Snus Users’ Association; Andrew Allison, campaigns director, The Freedom Association; tobacco investment analyst Rae Maile; and smoker Liz Barber.

I’m delighted to say we will also be joined by ‘light’ smoker Simon Hills who retired (last week) as associate editor of The Times Magazine.

Chaired by writer and journalist Rob Lyons (former deputy editor of Spiked) we'll be asking: Is ‘smoke free’ desirable let alone achievable? Can ‘smoke free’ be achieved without coercion? Is the best option not to smoke or vape? What if smokers don’t want to quit?

Also, now that the United Kingdom is no longer bound by the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive, how might this change the tobacco control landscape in the UK?

The most important stakeholder is of course the consumer so do please join the conversation. To register click here.

PS. The image above, which is part of a larger illustration, was designed by Dan Donovan.

It was inspired by the cover of the 2010 Labour Party manifesto and was commissioned for another Forest project, but that’s another story.

I’m just glad I’ve been able to use it.