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Not to be confused with Christopher Snowden.

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

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Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976 and studied history at Lancaster University, graduating in 1998.

Career

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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

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He lives in Sussex with his wife and daughter.[12]

Works

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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 Open access icon[18]
  • Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2017 ISBN 978-0-255-36750-9 Open access icon[19]
  • Polemics, Little Dice, 2020 [ISBN unspecified] [self-published source?]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Christopher Snowdon". The Telegraph. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Christopher Snowdon, Author at The Spectator". The Spectator. 29 August 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  3. ^ "THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS LIMITED". Charity Commission for England and Wales. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Why is the UK economy lagging behind the US, Germany and others?". BBC News. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Christopher Snowdon". Institute of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Lifestyle Economics". Institute of Economic Affairs. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  7. ^ "christopher snowdon". unfilteredonline.com. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Christopher Snowdon". The Great Debate. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  13. ^ Fitzpatrick, Michael (1 August 2013). "The anti-smoking 'truth regime' that cannot be questioned". Spiked. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Anti-smoking activism - Puff by puff, inch by inch". The Economist. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Blowing Smoke at a Ban". New York Times. 31 December 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  16. ^ Lyons, Rob (June 2009). "Puritanism disguised as science". Spiked review of books. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  17. ^ "COP10 - Experts". Taxpayers Protection Alliance. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  18. ^ Snowdon, Christopher. "Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism". Institute of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  19. ^ Snowdon, Christopher (10 November 2017). "Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism". Institute of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
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