The miracles keep on coming in Scotland, soon there will be pilgrimages. Drop in pregnancy complications after smoking ban Complications...

Like all years, 2011 was mostly awful for those of us who have a fondness for liberty. However, I have managed to find ten highlights to bri...

Word has it that the British Medical Association is going to have another stab at campaigning for a smoking ban in cars today. This is turni...

A quick review of some of the weekend's idiots... From the BBC , where if the press release mentions 'alcohol', it's a new...

Tomorrow I'll be at the Battle of Ideas at the Royal College of Art, London, to take part in a session titled 'Seduced by stats?...

Alcohol Concern have a habit of using children in their opinion polls, presumably because young people tend to be stupid and impressionable,...

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....

Liam Donaldson on the way to the bank Remember Britain's former Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson? Under the last Labour gover...

Nigel Hawkes has a must-read post up at Straight Statistics about the latest chapter in Britain's bogus drinking epidemic. The headline...

A little recommended reading this Sunday comes from Ep-ology , where Carl Phillips is not convinced that the Office of National Statistics g...