Christopher Snowdon

Christopher Snowdon is the head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is the author of Killjoys, Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism, The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition Since 1800, The Spirit Level Delusion, and, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist. You can find him tweeting at @cjsnowdon

There is no good evidence that adverts for alcohol increase consumption

Want to be poorer and less free? Do we have an ideology for you

A trip down the medical memory lane

People are not going to buy a product they don’t like

The sugar tax has not worked as intended

Prohibitionists are changing course on cigarettes, and Rishi stands alone

A new tax on rolling tobacco will backfire

The evidence for an effect on health is dubious to non-existent

Gambling and the simplistic dogma of public health