Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Sunday, 31 July 2011

EC consultation backfires spectacularly

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Last September, I mentioned the European Commission's public consultation on tobacco control. It asked questions about whether snus sho...
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Friday, 29 July 2011

A little snus coverage

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Apropos nothing, The Guardian has run a little story about a snus. It's not snuff, it's not snout … it's Snus Could this bro...
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Thursday, 28 July 2011

This is not a drill

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“A hot dog a day could send you to an early grave,” says PCRM [Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine] nutrition education director ...
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The BBC stands by its junk journalism

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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...
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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Crushed

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As you may have read elsewhere , Paul Bartlett's outdoor smoking ban was crushed on Tuesday evening. None of the nine other councillor...
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

More awful reporting from the BBC about breast cancer

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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...
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Dept of Health wants outdoor smoking bans - it's for your own good

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I'm much obliged to Man Widdecombe for recording this morning's debate about the Stony Stratford outdoor smoking ban on BBC Radio S...
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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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