Christopher Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976 and lives with his wife, daughter and cat in Sussex. He studied history at Lancaster University and is now a freelance journalist and author. He writes for the online magazine Spiked and on his own blog. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and The Guardian and he has appeared on numerous radio programmes, including the BBC's The Moral Maze.

He is the author of the internationally acclaimed Velvet Glove, Iron Fist and The Spirit Level Delusion. His latest book is The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition since 1800 (published October 2011). He is vocal critic of the modern public health establishment which he believes has been corrupted by moral entrepreneurs and vested interests. His ambition is to die of a non-communicable disease.

Please send any e-mails for the author to author@velvetgloveironfist.com

Recent articles

Ceci n'est pas une cigarette , Spiked
We're not wreckers. We just think The Spirit Level is bad social science, The Guardian
Un-level ground , Wall Street Journal
A brief period of celebration, The Free Society
Smoking ban health miracle is a myth, Environment & Climate News
Smoking out 'deniers' and 'dissidents', Spiked
Thirdhand smoke fever - another example of prejudice and propaganda, The Free Society
Interview with David Goerlitz, Spiked

Quoted in...

Blowing smoke at a ban, New York Times
No ifs, ands or butts, Westside Spirit

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"One of the best critics of paternalist excesses writing today and one of the few journalists exposing the shoddy science put out by many anti-tobacco researchers" - Jacob Grier

"His ability to find the methodological flaws within specific pieces of research, unearth and explain contrasting pieces of research, and present this set of conclusions in an accessible manner is a skill possessed by a comparative few and one for which his readers should be thankful." - Patrick Basham, Democracy Institute