Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Saturday, 18 October 2025

Good COP 11

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The WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties (FCTC COP) will be held in Geneva next month. The media will...
Friday, 17 October 2025

Banning cigarette filters?

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Some further thoughts on this at my Substack .   Smokers would have to greatly overestimate the benefits of filters for a ban to provide a ...
Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Prohibitionists for human rights!

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Not a spoof   Tobacco Control  has published an  hilarious article by a lawyer from ASH (USA) and a social scientist from Mike Bloomberg...
Monday, 13 October 2025

Towards prohibition

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I was spoke to Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch when I was at the Global Nicotine Forum in June. We discussed vaping, prohibition and why t...
Thursday, 9 October 2025

Has the ultra-processed food panic peaked?

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  Remember Joe Wicks, the chirpy gym bunny whose YouTube channel got children exercising during lockdown? He was quite famous in the sprin...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Dewi Evans' response to the latest Letby documentary

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Dewi Evans has sent a response to journalists following the broadcast of Conviction (AKA Lucy Letby: Murder or Mistake ) which I reviewed la...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

"Nicotine control" and the WHO

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I wrote about the WHO for the Telegraph over the weekend. One of its Regional Directors has said that he wants to "erase" alcohol...
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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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