Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Friday, 22 August 2025

Anti-capitalism and public health

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A new IEA report from me - read it here . And an article about it, also by me...   Academics who see disease spreading every time money cha...
Thursday, 14 August 2025

Spiralling down

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ASH are agitating for outdoor smoking bans again, this time with a dubious survey - see my Substack . And the government is looking at copyi...
Monday, 4 August 2025

No smokes without fire in Australia

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Australia saw another two murders in its ongoing nicotine wars last week and the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has finally had e...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Endless battle with illicit tobacco market - BBC

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The BBC has been waking up to the scale of Britain's illicit tobacco market. Packs of illicit whites sold for a fiver are one of the mo...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Semi-criminalisation

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I've written about the Online Safety Act and the broader issue of semi-criminalisation in Britain for The Critic .   Downloading random ...

Minimum pricing - a warning from 2017

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Writing about gambling on my Substack yesterday, I had cause to mention an article I wrote for Spectator Health in 2017 which has long sin...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

HMRC has its head in the sand about illicit tobacco

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A  study published last week estimated that 26.8 billion cigarettes are smoked each year in the UK. The state-funded pressure group Actio...
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Christopher Snowdon
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Writer and researcher at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Blogging in a personal capacity. Author of Polemics (2020), Killjoys (2017), Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism (2015), The Art of Suppression (2011), The Spirit Level Delusion (2010) and Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (2009).
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