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British writer and journalist
Christopher John Snowdon is a British author and freelance journalist. He is particularly known as a vocal opponent of
government intervention in areas such as
tobacco ,
alcohol , and
obesity .
Early life
Snowdon was born in
North Yorkshire in 1976 and studied history at
Lancaster University , graduating in 1998.
Career
He has written for the
Spiked website,
The Daily Telegraph
[1] and
The Spectator ,
[2] as well as the
Conservative Home website.
Snowdon is "Head of Lifestyle Economics" at the
Institute of Economic Affairs ,
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7] a
free market
think tank that receives funding from sources such as
BP ,
[8] the
gambling industry ,
[8]
British American Tobacco ,
[9]
[10] the
alcohol industry ,
food industry , and
sugar industry .
[11]
Personal life
He lives in
Sussex with his wife and daughter.
[12]
Works
His first book, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (2009), is a history of
anti-smoking activity from the fifteenth century to the present day.
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking , Little Dice, 2009 [ISBN unspecified] [
self-published source? ]
The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything ,
Democracy Institute /Little Dice, 2010 [ISBN unspecified] [
self-published source? ]
The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition since 1800 Little Dice, 2011 [ISBN unspecified] [
self-published source? ]
Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism ,
Institute of Economic Affairs , 2015
ISBN
978-0-255-36679-3
[18]
Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism ,
Institute of Economic Affairs , 2017
ISBN
978-0-255-36750-9
[19]
Polemics , Little Dice, 2020 [ISBN unspecified] [
self-published source? ]
See also
References
^
"Christopher Snowdon" . The Telegraph . 19 June 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023 .
^
"Christopher Snowdon, Author at The Spectator" . The Spectator . 29 August 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023 .
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"THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS LIMITED" . Charity Commission for England and Wales . Retrieved 18 August 2023 .
^
"Why is the UK economy lagging behind the US, Germany and others?" . BBC News . 18 February 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023 .
^
"Christopher Snowdon" . Institute of Economic Affairs . Retrieved 11 January 2022 .
^
"Lifestyle Economics" . Institute of Economic Affairs . 6 July 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2022 .
^
"christopher snowdon" . unfilteredonline.com . Retrieved 20 September 2023 .
^
a
b Carter, Lawrence; Ross, Alice (30 July 2018).
"BP and gambling interests fund secretive free market think tank the IEA" . Unearthed .
Greenpeace . Retrieved 30 September 2023 .
^ Gornall, Jonathan (15 May 2019).
"Big tobacco, the new politics, and the threat to public health" .
British Medical Journal . 365 : l2164.
doi :
10.1136/bmj.l2164 .
ISSN
0959-8138 .
PMID
31092403 .
S2CID
155102371 .
^ Matthews-King, Alex (16 May 2019).
"Big tobacco secretly bankrolling anti-NHS think tank whose bosses donate thousands to Tory leadership contenders, investigation reveals" .
The Independent . Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^ Miller, David; Harkins, Claire; Schlögl, Matthias; Montague, Brendan (2017). Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries . Oxford University Press. pp. 102–108.
ISBN
9780198753261 .
^
"Christopher Snowdon" . The Great Debate . Retrieved 15 November 2022 .
^
Fitzpatrick, Michael (1 August 2013).
"The anti-smoking 'truth regime' that cannot be questioned" .
Spiked . Retrieved 11 January 2022 .
^
"Anti-smoking activism - Puff by puff, inch by inch" . The Economist . 11 June 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2022 .
^
"Blowing Smoke at a Ban" . New York Times . 31 December 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2022 .
^ Lyons, Rob (June 2009).
"Puritanism disguised as science" .
Spiked review of books . Archived from
the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2023 .
^
"COP10 - Experts" .
Taxpayers Protection Alliance . 20 July 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023 .
^ Snowdon, Christopher.
"Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism" .
Institute of Economic Affairs . Retrieved 20 September 2023 .
^ Snowdon, Christopher (10 November 2017).
"Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism" .
Institute of Economic Affairs . Retrieved 20 September 2023 .
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