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  • Inside the Sausage Factory
    Christopher Snowdon
    ’Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.’ - Otto von BismarckThe 21st-century public is endlessly bombarded with calls for restrictions on unhealthy or sinful behaviour. Whether it’s sugar taxes, plain packaging on cigarettes, or minimum alcohol prices, we’re often told that these policies are for our own good - the evidence says so.But what is the evid...
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    20,09 €

  • The Art of Suppression
    Christopher Snowdon
    The prohibition of alcohol in the USA was a notorious fiasco. The War on Drugs has been a deadly failure. Bans on alternative nicotine products keep people smoking cigarettes. Attempts to suppress legal highs result in more drugs hitting the market. Prohibition doesn’t work but the world is filled with prohibitionists. Why? Christopher Snowdon’s new history of prohibitions is a...
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  • The Spirit Level Delusion
    Christopher John Snowdon
    Do Cubans live longer than Americans?Are Scandinavians happier than the British? Do Oscar winners live longer than other actors? Does capitalism cause mental illness? Does inequality lead to murder? Would higher taxes make us slimmer, more trusting and more charitable? The Spirit Level Delusion shines the light of reason on some of the extraordinary claims made in favour of big...
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  • Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
    Christopher John Snowdon
    Spain, 1493 - Europe's first smoker imprisioned by the Inquisition England, 1604 - Massive tax rise on tobacco in a bid to discourage smoking Canada, 1676 - Smoking is banned in the street United States, 1899 - Anti-smoking campaigners call for the eradication of tobacco Germany, 1944 - Smoking banned on public transport to protect workers from secondhand smoke In ...
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    24,64 €