ALLEN CARR ON SMOKING
REGULATION

“Smokers are fed up of being pushed around and made to feel like lepers.” Although the ban is important in terms of protecting the health of workers in pubs and nightclubs, if the government were serious about solving the smoking problem they would offer more effective means of helping smokers to quit rather than merely banning them or offering them nicotine patches and gum.

In my view, smoking bans won't work - the prohibition experience in 1920's America proved that. Countries where the smoking bans already exist claim that sales of cigarettes have decreased - but does this take into account the many smokers who now choose to buy their cigarettes on the black market?

To ban smoking is missing the point. What smokers need more than anything is real help to quit - something the Government, Department of Health and NHS fail to deliver. I'm widely regarded as the world's leading expert on stopping smoking - but so far the Government, Department of Health and NHS have refused to even meet me

More and more companies have been using our corpo rate service to help their employees quit smoking - people like BMW, Unilever, Ford, Microsoft, IKEA to name but a few. It appears that, as usual, the private sector is light years ahead of the legislators.