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Friday, 6 February 2026

Economic nationalism in 'public health'

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Some 'public health' academics have given a surprising endorsement to economic nationalism, as I discuss in The Critic ...   A fter ...
Thursday, 5 February 2026

What the hell is Impact Unfiltered?

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L ast November, I reported on the EU’s plan to force member states to levy punitive taxes on e-cigarette fluid and nicotine pouches. The ...
Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Minimum pricing in Wales - a textbook example of policy failure

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As in Scotland, minimum pricing in Wales had a sunset clause so it could be repealed if it didn't work. As in Scotland, it didn't wo...
Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Drink beer, smoke tabs

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Studies like this are so contrary to 'public health' dogma that it's amazing that they get published at all these days. But eve...
Monday, 19 January 2026

Money for almost nothing

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Last week I wrote for The Critic about the Sheffield University alcohol research group continuing to get government grants rolling in des...

Selling zero-alcohol drinks to kids

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Labour is weighing up a crackdown on people under 18 buying ‘no and low-alcohol’ drinks. On current form, this means Keir Starmer’s govern...
Thursday, 15 January 2026

Waking up to the reality of tobacco's black market

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There's a website called Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues which is written by a few anti-smoking activist-academics. It provides ...
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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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