http://www.freedom2choose.info/ News from the Freedom To Choose press office http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1161 3rd September 2010. The BBPA, in their yearly handbook, have reported that as a nation we are drinking less and less each year. In fact, we drank 6% less in 2009 than we did in 2008 and that we are consuming 13% less alcohol than we did in 2004! Further, despite what co... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1161 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1160 2nd September 2010. Todays startling news comes from the sleepy hollows of Wokingham, after whom, I assume, the Wokingham Handicap sprint was named. There is usually an explosive finish to that race so I suppose that it is no surpise that some explosive figures have ema... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1160 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1159 29th August 2010. On 23 June, the European Parliament hosted a policy debate around the new scientific evidence on the impact of passive smoking on children’s health, released by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians, a member of the Euro... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1159 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1158 29th August 2010. It appears that staff within UK Tobacco Control can decide to omit, forget or even disregard their professional conflicts of interest as shown in their latest letter to The Lancet. Not content with hiding their true positions, they even have... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1158 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1156 26th August 2010. Another day, possibly another dollar, but definitely another pub closes - and so it goes on. This closure is of particular interest to 'soap' fans for it it The Woolpack - yep, the original pub set in the dales for Emmerdale Farm all those years ago.... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1156 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1155 25th August 2010. I came across this short but very pointed letter on facebook, so decided to look at the site. It shows just how appalling this smokeban law really is. "My friend’s Grandad is 102 years old. Until he was 100 years old he used to smoke a p... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1155 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1154 20th August 2010. Todays news is cracking news folks. No! we have not defeated ASH or CRUK just yet and NO! we have not quite yet forced this government to reform the smoking ban-but it is coming! Todays news concerns f2c and shops. Early last year I proposed we cre... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1154 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1153 16th August 2010. The long awaited video that accompanies Bob James's song "What Can We Do Now(Save the British Pub)" has now been released and I'll tell you what folks, it's very catchy indeed! The song, written and sung by Bob James, a country & ... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1153 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1152 13th August 2010. Imagine the scene if you can. Standing outside his pub in 'Little India' (the Evington Road side of Leicester) a man stands smoking his first 'business' cigarette of the day. He stands alone, outside the doors of his pub; his pride and joy. He speaks... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1152 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1151 31st July 2010. Since the truly dark days of Labour rule where the smoking ban began the leperisation of 25% of the population a new phenomena has emerged – in the shape of an electronic cigarette. This truly remarkable invention looks just like a cigarette an... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1151