FOREST - rapidly becoming a dinosaur?

Posted on October 4th, 2007 by

For every social change for the better that comes about, it appears that is always a group that opposes it, and for the welcome changes in attitudes towards smoking, the opposition in the UK is an organisation known as FOREST.
FOREST is the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco, and is mostly funded, […]

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Young people and tobacco advertising

Posted on September 27th, 2007 by

The UK charity Quit, that helps people to give up smoking, has reported that young people are three times as likely to start smoking if both their parents smoke, but, significantly, whether their parents approve or disapprove of smoking is also a factor.

Similarly, an Australian study found that young people are twice as likely […]

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