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Christopher Snowdon

12 June 2013

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It is brave for a lobby group that has a long track record of using dodgy surveys, junk science and misleading press releases to release a report entitled Stick To The Facts, but that is what state...

Médecins sans frontières

Tom Papworth

16 April 2012

3 comments

Doctors just can’t help trying to save people, it seems. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which brings together the presidents of the Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties and...

Pssst! Wanna boost kids’ smoking? Have a display ban!

Patrick Basham

15 July 2010

24 comments

Public health regulations frequently serve exclusively to prevent legal capitalistic acts between consenting adults. But the fact that prohibition’s history is a history of failure never stops...

Don’t lecture the drinkers, just make them responsible

Mark Littlewood

6 July 2010

7 comments

Alcohol consumption is now a major problem in British society. Drunken teenagers are running rampant in our town centres. Accident and emergency wards are chock-a-block with people who have fallen...

Tobacco tax proposals should go up in smoke

Mark Littlewood

19 March 2010

20 comments

A new report from Policy Exchange (strapline: David Cameron’s favourite think tank) has apparently “re-ignited” the “controversial” debate about tobacco...

Public health and the strange double life of advertising

Kristian Niemietz

6 April 2009

8 comments

It is not always necessary to contradict politicians; it is often better to wait until they contradict themselves. A case in point would seem to be Health Secretary Alan Johnson...

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