Christopher Snowdon
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Christopher John Snowdon is an author and freelance journalist based in the UK. He writes for Spiked and other publications. He is particularly known as a vocal opponent of Government intervention in matters such as alcohol and obesity; his Twitter biography used to state that he is "not that keen on the nanny state."[1] He is also Head of Lifestyle Economics at Institute of Economic Affairs.[2]
Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976 and studied history at Lancaster University, graduating in 1998.[1]
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]
Books[]
- Polemics, Little Dice, 2020
- Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2017
- 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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Velvet Glove, Iron Fist website, About the author, accessed 5 October 2011
- ^ IEA people, Institute of Economic Affairs website
- ^ Michael Fitzpatrick, "The anti-smoking ‘truth regime’ that cannot be questioned" Spiked 1 August 2013. [1]
- ^ "Anti-smoking activism Puff by puff, inch by inch" The Economist 11 June 2009 [2]
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