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 edit
Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976 and studied history at Lancaster University, graduating in 1998.
Career edit
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 edit
Works edit
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 edit
References edit
- ^ "Christopher Snowdon, Author at The Spectator". The Spectator. 29 August 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ "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.