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Smoking, law breaking, tax and the prudish nonsense of Rachel Reeves

Tom Winnifrith
Thursday 4 June 2026

Some will dismiss a KPMG Report on smoking in 38 European countries out yesterday as it was commissioned by tobacco company Phillip Morris. Others will look at the data and come to a rather obvious conclusion. Rachel Reeves will ignore the data and cheered on by a prudish political class come to a different and wrong conclusion. The good news is that, despite the heroic efforts of Pete “fagash” Brailey overall consumption in 2025 fell by c4% to c500 billion sticks across 38 European markets surveyed

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Tom Winnifrith is the editor of TomWinnifrith.com. When he is not harvesting olives in Greece, he is (planning to) raise goats in Wales.
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