Christopher Snowdon was born in North Yorkshire in 1976. He studied history at Lancaster University and graduated in 1998. He is an adjunct scholar at the Democracy Institute. Velvet Glove, Iron Fist was his first book.

He is an independent researcher and author and has no affiliation or financial ties with the tobacco industry or any anti-smoking group.

His latest book is The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything.

Recent articles

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