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
Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976 and studied history at Lancaster University, graduating in 1998.
Career
He has written for the Spiked website, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, as well as the Conservative Home website.
Snowdon is "Head of Lifestyle Economics" at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free market think tank that receives funding from sources such as BP, the gambling industry, British American Tobacco, the alcohol industry, food industry, and sugar industry.
Personal life
He lives in Sussex with his wife and daughter.
Works
His first book, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (2009), is a history of anti-smoking activity from the fifteenth century to the present day.
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking, Little Dice, 2009
The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything, Democracy Institute/Little Dice, 2010 The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition since 1800 Little Dice, 2011 Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2015 Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2017 Polemics, Little Dice, 2020
See also
The Spirit Level (book)