I have always feared for Stanton Glantz's mental health, but it's only since he started blogging that I've realised that the guy...

They say you're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. Wise words, but that's not how it works in tobacco control....

Yet more pitiful health reporting from the nation's state broadcaster: Children aged four in Wales' A & Es for drink and drug...

Seven days after sending an e-mail to the BBC about its story which falsely claimed that obesity, drinking and smoking are the three biggest...

Michelle Roberts of the BBC has produced a wholly misleading report about a study of sex hormones and breast cancer risk based on a press r...

From the BBC: In recent years, along with all other media, we at the BBC may have implied that an unstoppable tide of rising alcohol consu...

A very busy day of smoking ban-related items at the BBC yesterday, evidently inspired by the Dutch rolling back its smoking ban. Belinda has...

The big news today is that secondhand smoke causes 600,000 deaths a year worldwide. Anyone tempted to take this figure remotely seriously s...

The subject of Wednesday's Moral Maze was  Nudge  by Thaler and Sunstein. They argue (compellingly) that it would be nice if we could s...

Thanks to all who listened to and commented on last night's show, which can be listened to here for 7 days. I'll have some final th...

Tomorrow evening I'll be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze programme which will be discussing 'libertarian paternalism'...

One for Biased BBC ? Life expectancy for everyone in England improved under Labour , and now stands at almost 78 years for men and 82 year...

The BBC has struggled to find a way of promoting the temperance movement today, so it has resorted to a little quiz... It's not actually...

After much searching, I have found one person who agrees with Richard Bacon's figure of one million fewer smokers since the ban. And it...

I recently  mentioned  a study that is being cited as evidence to support the case for the plain packaging of cigarettes. It suggested, to n...

Over at Sp!ked , Patrick Hayes discusses the BBC's hysterical report about shisha smoking. As Hayes points out, the widely reported cla...