Freedom-2-Choose (Scotland)

Just a quickie: a headline article in the Evening News claims that Edinburgh Royal Infirmary has 'blown' £600,000 on clearing smoking-related litter since the smoking ban. Clearly this is another attempt to attempt to outlaw smoking on hospital grounds...

I had a call from the BBC this morning inviting me on to the Radio Scotland Morning Call phone-in with Louise White. The subject was the study blogged by Forest here, by someone at Heriot Watt University here in Edinburgh. It claimed that passive smoke...

Following the decision that smoking in cars could now be outlawed south of the border it was refreshing to see from Zoe Williams in the Guardian some criticism of double standards on smoking. This is the highlight:
Almost all the Tories so fervently against smoking in cars are simultaneously pretty sanguine about foodbanks. Six weeks ago nearly 300 MPs voted against a motion calling on the government to reduce dependency on emergency food aid. It is difficult to...

Hat tip Junican, see comments. In reply to Linda Bauld.
You can't go far wrong if, whenever you see the word 'may' in science, you dismiss the supposition. Science does not do supposition or superstition. It does hypothesis. Scientific investigations MUST depend upon an initial hypothesis. It would be extremely...