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Monthly Archives: October 2013
A New Public Health Time Bomb
Guess what it is this time. Smoking? Alcohol? Diet? Nope, none of them. It’s unemployed youth: Young people who are not in employment or education in Britain are “a public health time bomb waiting to explode,” the World Health Organisation … Continue reading
Naughty,… But Nice
Chris Snowdon has a post up on Spiked with a nicely paradoxical title: The Disease of ‘Public Health’: It is not a novel observation to note that health has taken the place of religion in modern society. It can scarcely … Continue reading
I Absolutely Loved It Immediately.
For a change, here’s somebody else writing about smoking: Tom Schilb. It starts: Sometimes, I remember what my real purpose is in this world. It is to defy conventional thinking, standards and norms at all costs. I don’t trust in … Continue reading
Big Pharma as Organised Crime
Ex-BMJ editor Richard Smith’s preface to a book by Peter Gøtzsche, the head of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, entitled Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare – a book about the failures of the whole system of … Continue reading
Profit Isn’t a Dirty Word
I only watched a few minutes of Jeremy Paxman’s interview of the tiresome Russell Brand. But I heard the bit which the Adam Smith Institute picked up, where Brand says: ‘David Cameron says profit isn’t a dirty word, well I say … Continue reading
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.
They must be crazy. They must have a death wish. H/T Harley, France Mulls Scented Candle Ban: After recent health-driven moves to tax or restrict the use of energy drinks, artificial sweeteners and electronic cigarettes, French health authorities have now … Continue reading
We Don’t Need No Tobacco Control
I probably would have agreed with Simon Clark ten years ago. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t believe there should be some degree of tobacco control, whether it involves marketing, age restrictions or places where you can smoke. To that … Continue reading
Perfect Certainty
I was reading the health warning on a tobacco packet today. It’s not something I often do, because I keep my tobacco in a tin. I only ever get to read the health warnings when I refill the tin. And … Continue reading
E-cig Fashion
I’ve always thought that e-cigs were a wonderfully subversive idea: a cigarette without any smoke. I had to have one. They wind up the antis no end. But mostly they either look like cigarettes, or like mini Dyson vacuum cleaners. But … Continue reading
A Bit Tiddly
How terrible! How terribly, terribly, terribly terrible! Half of young people see their parents drunk Parents are putting children at risk of developing alcohol problems by setting bad examples, suggests research showing nearly half of young people have seen their mother … Continue reading
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