August 2011

Health experts have accused the government of spending more on subsidising American films that contain smoking scenes than on anti-tobacco campaigns. Researchers at Imperial College London calculated that between 2003 and 2009, £338 of tax credits in Britain went to the US-produced films with imagery “promoting” tobacco use. Foreign film-makers receive 16% tax relief against [...]

TV chef and publican Antony Worrall Thompson, who runs The Greyhound pub at Rotherfield Peppard near Henley-on-Thames and is patron of the smokers’ group Forest, has launched an e-petition calling on the government to review the smoking ban. Simon Clark, director of Forest and the Save Our Pubs and Clubs campaign said: “Give landlords and [...]