 | Christopher Snowdon is an independent writer and researcher. Born in North Yorkshire, he studied history at Lancaster University and currently lives with his wife and daughter in Sussex. He is the author of Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking and The Spirit Level Delusion. His work focuses on pleasure, prohibition and dodgy statistics. He is an occasional columnist for spiked and appears on BBC radio and television to discuss the tobacco control and temperance campaigns, past and present. Snowdon is a critic of the modern public health movement which he says has been corrupted by vested interests and moral entrepreneurs. His next book—The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition—will be a history of alcohol, narcotic and tobacco prohibition since 1800. |
The Spirit Level Delusion: fact-checking the Left’s new theory of everything (Democracy Institute/Little Dice, 2010)
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