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Christopher Snowdon

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{{BLP primary sources|date=January 2013}}Christopher John Snowdon is an author and freelance journalist based in the UK. He writes for Sp!ked and other publications. He is particularly known as a vocal opponent of Government intervention in matters such as alcohol and obesity; his Twitter biography states that he is "not that keen on the nanny state" .^[1] He is also a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs.^[1]

Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976 and studied history at Lancaster University, graduating in 1998.^[2]

His first book, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (2009), is a history of anti-smoking activity from the fifteenth century to the present day.^[3]^[4] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 56 libraries ^[5]

His second book, The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything (2010), is a response to and critique of Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better.

His third book is The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition since 1800 (2011).

Snowdon's critics allege proximity to industry interests, and have also documented repeated polemical attacks on established scientists.^[6]

Books

The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition since 1800 Little Dice, 2011
The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything, Democracy Institute/Little Dice, 2010
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking, Little Dice, 2009

References

1. ^IEA people, Institute of Economic Affairs website
2. ^¹Velvet Glove, Iron Fist website, About the author, accessed 5 October 2011
3. ^Michael Fitzpatrick, "The anti-smoking ‘truth regime’ that cannot be questioned" Spiked 1 August 2013.
4. ^"Anti-smoking activismPuff by puff, inch by inch" The Economist 11 June 2009
5. ^WorldCat item record
6. ^Tobacco Tactics website: Chris Snowdon | accessed 08 August 2014

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