Christopher Snowdon, Fellow

Christopher Snowdon is an author and freelance journalist, writing principally as a vocal opponent of government intervention in matters such as smoking, alcohol, and obesity. He is a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and blogs at Velvet Glove, Iron Fist. His bibliography includes The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition since 1800 (2011), The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left’s New Theory of Everything (2010), and Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking (2009).

With the Adam Smith Institute, he has written The Wages of Sin Taxes (2012) and, with John C. Duffy, The Minimal Evidence for Minimum Pricing (2012).

He tweets as@cjsnowdon.