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Drink beer, smoke tabs

Money for almost nothing

Selling zero-alcohol drinks to kids

Waking up to the reality of tobacco's black market

Me on the Tom Nelson podcast

Clive Bates on Substack

Anti-alcohol plot backfires in the USA

Lowering the drink-drive limit

Food advertising ban introduced - what's next?

The stakeholder state

Michael McFadden RIP

Stay safe this Christmas with 'public health' advice

Australia's prohibition double whammy

From harm reduction to harm elimination

Old Mudgie RIP

The fantasy land of 'public health' academia

The OBR is bad and HMRC is worse

The WHO's "best buys" for alcohol

What happened at COP11?

The WHO is a billion dollars in the red

"Good riddance" is not an economic policy

COP 11 starts this week

Black market gambling

Chris van Tulleken and the slippery slope

Dewi Evans' unpublished letter to Private Eye

See you in Hell, European Alcohol Policy Alliance!

The big lies of ASH

Desperate gamblers?

Look Back in Anger: The Conservatives and the nanny state

Tobacco prohibition and public opinion

The battle for the gambling levy millions

Good COP 11

Banning cigarette filters?

Prohibitionists for human rights!

Towards prohibition

Has the ultra-processed food panic peaked?

Dewi Evans' response to the latest Letby documentary

"Nicotine control" and the WHO

Plain packs for vapes

A ban on lying

The lifestyle medicine of Aseem Malhotra

Are problem gamblers four times more likely to attempt suicide?

RIP Graham "mad dog" MacGregor

Drink driving and the bootleggers

Mario Rizzo on behavioural economics

Gambling disorder does not cause suicide - study

Horse racing strike

The endless "public health" playbook

More reasons to doubt the official data on the illicit tobacco trade

Anti-capitalism and public health

Spiralling down

No smokes without fire in Australia

Endless battle with illicit tobacco market - BBC

Semi-criminalisation

Minimum pricing - a warning from 2017

HMRC has its head in the sand about illicit tobacco

Just rejoice at this news

High taxes fuel illicit trade - shocker!

The crack cocaine of amusement arcades

Tobacco and Vapes Bill - live!

HMRC greatly underestimates the black market in tobacco