Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Friday, 31 March 2017

Letter to The Times

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I wrote a short letter to The Times yesterday about the food reformulation scam. So far has the Overton Window shifted that the only permis...
Thursday, 30 March 2017

It's never really about the children

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Public Health England are pushing on with their mad idea to take arbitrary percentages of sugar, fat, salt and calories out of Britain's...
Monday, 27 March 2017

The decent and tolerant people of Wales

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Given the state-funded hate campaign against smokers that we have seen over the last ten years it is remarkable that the majority of people ...
Friday, 24 March 2017

Tobacco Control fail

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The 2016 Tobacco Control Scale (TCS) was published yesterday. The TCS pats governments on the back for capitulating to the whims of the ant...
Thursday, 23 March 2017

Moderate drinking: doubt, denial and whataboutery

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Yet another study has shown that teetotallers have a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular death and death. The study was published...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Fake dental news?

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The dubious claims about tooth decay are coming thick and fast now. Only two months after the last dodgy press release about children havin...
Thursday, 16 March 2017

Smoking rate falls to 9% in Sweden thanks to snus

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In Sweden, the smoking rate has fallen to a mere nine per cent, as the New Scientist reports , and snus is being given due credit. It'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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