relatório do grupo pro-tabaco Forest
Forest is a British based smokers’ rights group. Founded in 1979, the name is an acronym for ‘The Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco.
This page is about the present-day Forest; for more on its historical reliance on tobacco funding, the influence of the industry and Forest’s aim to develop into “an aggressive and intemperate adversary” – see the TobaccoTactics page on the History of Forest, and the page on its director Simon Clark.
The Manifesto Club says it “campaigns against the hyper regulation of everyday life. We support free movement across borders, free expression and free association. We challenge booze bans, photo bans, vetting and speech codes – all new ways in which the state regulates everyday life on the streets, in workplaces and in our private lives”.
On 26 June 2007 The Manifesto Club hosted a debate asking “what the smoking ban means for freedom”,and from 2010 was one of several organisations that took part in a series of debates, called Voices of Freedom, at the Institute of Economic Affairs (which has a history of being funded by the tobacco industry) in London, organised by The Free Society (a campaign run by Forest, which is funded by the tobacco industry).
The Manifesto Club has produced reportsin collaboration with Forest which has received funding from major tobacco companies including Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, and Imperial Tobacco.
[referência 11do relatório Defs] : Evans, G. 1982. Letter from Geoffrey to Michael Scott regarding new arrangements between Forest and tobacco companies, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates numbers: 303695982-303695984
No entanto, a ligação entre a Forest e o chef não é tão explícita. Por exemplo, emagosto de 2011, quando Worrall Thompson divulgou uma petição eletrônicareivindicando que o governo revisse a proibição de fumar.
FOREST. TV chef launches e-petition to amend smoking ban. Forestonline.org,
A indústria do tabaco há muito tempo tenta marginalizar seus adversários,rotulando-os como 'extremistas'. Em sua "Estratégia Futura" em 1989, o entãodiretor da ‘Forest,’ Chris Tame propôs alinhar-se com a causa libertária e, aomesmo tempo, atacar defensores da saúde pública, rotulando-os de os 'fascistasda saúde'. Isto, alinhado com a estratégia da Forest, de 1983, para se tornar "umadversário agressivo e destemperado ".
IS FOREST exportable?Tobacco Institute; Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Estados Unidos,22 set. 1983. Disponível em: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wys55b00/pdf.Acesso em: 27 fev. 2015.