It took the blogosphere just four days to raisethe near £10 000 to secure the release of Nick Hogan, imprisoned forsix months for flouting the smoking ban in his own premises and failingto act as the States unofficial Policeman.It took a further five days to convince Paypalthat the money collected was not part of some International MoneyLaundering, Drugs and Sex trafficking Ring, and for the cash to bereleased by a High Street Bank under the Money Laundering'Regulations', during which time Nick continued to languish in Jail.This in an age when Billions can be rocketed from London to Tokyo inseconds by our trusted and well beloved Banking industry.This was always a Libertarian issue, a civil rights issue rather than aPublic Health issue. The hypocrisy of taxing tobacco and punishing...