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In 1978, Chelsea’s club doctor famously ran onto the pitch with a cigarette dangling from his mouth to help stretcher off an injured player.

Brussels prepares sweeping reset of nicotine policy as battle lines harden eureporter.co/health/2026/04…

Congratulations, Sir Philip Davies, here receiving our coveted Voices of Freedom award in 2025!

‘We’re in the no fun era’ — Joe Jackson on smoking bans and abstinence thetimes.com/article/02869f…

‘From industry parties to trendy clubs, cigarettes appear to be making their Hollywood comeback, despite decades of public health campaigns aimed at snubbing them out.’ open.substack.com/pub/theankler/…

The first commercially successful electronic cigarette bbc.com/audio/play/w3c…

Coffin nails and the habit that defies burial washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

Over half of UK smokers say tobacco tax hikes will drive them to black market thesun.co.uk/news/38702715/…

The ‘tobacco endgame’. ‘The time has come to move from controlling tobacco to eliminating the industry entirely.’ As if anyone was in any doubt … ash.org/making-endgame…

How to spot a fake vape theguardian.com/society/2026/m…

Nicotine vapes outperform patches and gum for quitters neurosciencenews.com/nicotine-vapes…

Europe’s booming illicit tobacco trade, with nearly half of all cigarettes sold in several countries now coming from illegal sources, is deeply intertwined with other crime and starting to resemble the drug trade. brusselssignal.eu/2026/03/illici…

Smoking ban anniversary “nothing to celebrate” “The ban was a disaster for many pubs in Scotland, especially inner city bars that had no outdoor area where smokers could light up in comfort. Hundreds of pubs closed and thousands of jobs were lost.” forestonline.org/smoking-ban-an…

Simon Clark, director of the smokers' rights group Forest, campaigned against the [smoking] ban 20 years ago. He says that while most smokers have adapted to the ban, "the war on smoking has gone far enough". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Discussing this on @BBCRadioScot from 9.45. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Anthony Albanese is being urged to slash tobacco excise by half amid warnings it has created the world's "worst" illicit tobacco market and ripped $11 billion from the federal budget. skynews.com.au/australia-news…

Nigel Farage: Reform will repeal the generational smoking ban telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

This comes back to the House of Commons tomorrow. Not sure if they’ll be a vote so I am placing on record my opposition. Regulate vapes for sure but the age-related tobacco ban is un-English, illiberal, unscientific, economically damaging, likely to be crime-inducing and wrong.

Some information about oral nicotine pouches pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/featur…