IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon featured in a Daily Express article condemning plans to make Oxfordshire a smoke-free county with smoking in public places like beer gardens and outdoor restaurant tables prohibited.

Christopher wrote: “We might dislike smoking, but we dislike puritanical busybodies and meddling bureaucrats even more” adding, “The nanny statists responsible for this proposal must have a tin ear if they think there is an appetite for more bossy infringements of liberty and business-destroying edicts in the name of public health.”

Read the full article here.