David Hockney

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Artist David Hockney (1937-2016) was a long-term supporter of the pro-smoking organisation Forest.

He was a member of Forest’s Supporters Council, and attended its events in support of smokers’ rights.1

He first attended a private Forest dinner in 2004. Afterwards he described it as a “life-enhancing experience”. The following year he attended the Forest Annual Awards at The Groucho Club and spoke at a Forest event at the Labour party conference in Brighton where he was “headline news”. 23

On occasions when speaking out in the media, Hockney’s links to Forest were not always immediately apparent:

  • In January 2012 he wrote a critical letter to the Guardian newspaper, in response to an article by an anti-tobacco campaigner leading the fight for plain packaging.4
  • In February 2012 he attacked “Anti-tobacco fanatics”, again in The Guardian, this time via an Ipad illustration.5
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References

  1. ↑Forest, David Hockney appointed to Order of Merit, website, 2 January 2012, archived 10 January 2012
  2. ↑Forest, Our supporters, website, undated, archived April 2011
  3. ↑Hockney leads smoking ban protest, BBC News, 28 September 2005, accessed September 2026
  4. ↑David Hockney, The trouble with tobacco haters, The Guardian, 27 January 2012
  5. ↑David Hockney, A letter in a picture, The Guardian, 28 February 2012

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