Christopher Snowdon, IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics, has commented in The Sun on proposals to ban smoking in beer gardens and council housing and raise the legal age to buy tobacco every year.

The review into smoking, commissioned by the government and authored by Dr Javed Khan, was characterised by Christopher as being “absolutely insane”.

Christopher asserted that Dr Khan “has gathered the most crackpot ideas from the lunatic fringe of the nanny state lobby and compiled them in a single document.”

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