Public Health

• Maybe Schools Don't Control What Kids Eat, Jacob Sullum, January 24, 2012
• CDC: If You Drink Enough to Enjoy It, You've Had Too Much, Jacob Sullum, January 23, 2012
• If Poker Is a Public Health Issue, What Isn't?, Jacob Sullum, January 19, 2012
• Will the Obesity Plateau Allow Us to Take a Breather From Paternalistic Panic?, Jacob Sullum, January 18, 2012
• Cancel the War and Fix the Wounded, A. Barton Hinkle, January 17, 2012
• Nicotine Gum and Patches May Not Work, but at Least They're Officially Approved, Jacob Sullum, January 13, 2012
• Nanny Bloomberg Targets Alcohol, Jacob Sullum, January 11, 2012
• Will Scotch in a Can Get the Four Loko Treatment?, Jacob Sullum, January 2, 2012
• Dick Durbin: Ban Flavored Cigars—for the Children, Jacob Sullum, December 23, 2011
• Republicans Restore Ban on Needle Exchange Funding, Jacob Sullum, December 16, 2011
• IOM Report Recommends That the FDA Continue Suppressing Lifesaving Information About Cigarette Alternatives, Jacob Sullum, December 14, 2011
• Wait, Honey Smacks Have a Lot of Sugar?, Jacob Sullum, December 8, 2011
• Smart Kids Do Drugs, Jacob Sullum, December 6, 2011
• Obama's 'Innovative, Compassionate, and Evidence-Based Drug Policies', Jacob Sullum, December 5, 2011
• To Prevent Kids From Smoking Cigarettes, New York Bars Adults From Buying Flavored Cigars, Jacob Sullum, December 2, 2011
• Boston Bans E-Cigarettes in Workplaces, Just Because, Jacob Sullum, December 2, 2011
• New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the FDA's Misguided Efforts to Take Away America's Salt, December 1, 2011
• Roll Your Own, Avoid the Taxes, Jacob Sullum, November 22, 2011
• Fast Food Is Not a Poor Choice, Jacob Sullum, November 10, 2011
• Phobos-Grunt, We Hardly Knew Ye, Tim Cavanaugh, November 9, 2011
• Better Off Vaping, Jacob Sullum, November 9, 2011
• Public Health and the Tyranny of the Common Good, A. Barton Hinkle, November 8, 2011
• Federal Judge Blocks New Cigarette Warning Labels, Jacob Sullum, November 7, 2011
• Mark Bittman Corrects Fact-Resistant Food Policy Analysts...Such As Mark Bittman, Jacob Sullum, October 17, 2011
• FTC Claims Phusion Projects Misled Consumers by Implying They Could Drink Four Loko Out of the Can, Jacob Sullum, October 4, 2011
• Bloomberg: Paternalism Is 'Government's Highest Duty', Jacob Sullum, October 3, 2011
• Reason.tv: Couple Heading to Court after Hosting Home Bible Study! (Nanny of the Month, Sept 2011), Ted Balaker, October 3, 2011
• If Traffic Deaths Were Rising, Would the Los Angeles Times Be Less Alarmed?, Jacob Sullum, September 21, 2011
• Does Disease Cause Autocracy?, Ronald Bailey, October 2011
• Bachmann's Vaccine Panic, Steve Chapman, September 15, 2011
• Has Rick Perry Neutralized the Gardasil Controversy?, Jacob Sullum, September 14, 2011
• Data From Seven States Show No Connection Between Smoking Bans and Heart Attack Rates, Jacob Sullum, September 13, 2011
• Who Will Protect Children From Dangerously Exciting Cartoons?, Jacob Sullum, September 12, 2011
• WTO Rejects U.S. Ban on Clove Cigarettes, Jacob Sullum, September 9, 2011
• 'Childhood Itself Is Now in Crisis', Jacob Sullum, September 1, 2011
• Reason.tv: Michigan Bar Owners Ban Lawmakers for Banning Smoking! (Nanny of the Month, Aug 2011), Ted Balaker, September 1, 2011
• Another Multi-City Study Finds No Link Between Smoking Bans and Heart Attack Rates, Jacob Sullum, August 26, 2011
• Obama Supports a 'Public Health' Approach to Drugs, but Only in Theory, Jacob Sullum, July 27, 2011
• Meddling in Other People's Diets Is 'Fun' and 'Inspiring', Jacob Sullum, July 25, 2011
• MRSA: Another Way Pot Prohibition Enhances Public Health, Jacob Sullum, July 11, 2011
• Reason.tv: The War on Lemonade Stands! Nanny of the Month (June 2011), Ted Balaker, July 1, 2011
• No Cigars in Cigar City, Jacob Sullum, June 24, 2011
• Another Victory in Drug Harm Multiplication, Jacob Sullum, June 22, 2011
• Evidently Smoking Is Bad for You, Jacob Sullum, June 21, 2011
• A Dose of Depressing Vaccine Data, Katherine Mangu-Ward, June 15, 2011
• Uncle Sam's Cool New Way of Nagging You to Eat Your Vegetables, Jacob Sullum, June 6, 2011
• Organic Folks Don Their Tin Foil Hats To Explain Outbreak of Deadly E. Coli Bacteria, Ronald Bailey, June 6, 2011
• San Francisco Circumcision Intactivist's Anti-Semitic Comix, Tim Cavanaugh, June 5, 2011
• Debating Federally Funded School Lunches on Federally Funded Radio, Jacob Sullum, June 3, 2011
• Muddying the Hookah Water, Jacob Sullum, June 1, 2011
• Easy Work Joins Delicious Food As a Public Health Menace, Jacob Sullum, May 27, 2011
• Be Thankful You Can Still Buy That Jumbo Bottle of Tylenol, Jacob Sullum, May 24, 2011
• Trans Fat Expressway to Your Heart or, Land of Lincoln Wants to Jump on Ban Wagon, Nick Gillespie, May 10, 2011
• Do Menthol Cigarettes Taste Too Good to Be Legal?, Jacob Sullum, May 9, 2011
• Mass Circumcision Party Seeks Guiness Book Record, Nick Gillespie, May 9, 2011
• Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Smoking Bans on Public Property, Jacob Sullum, May 6, 2011
• Could Eating Less Salt Be Deadly?, Jacob Sullum, May 5, 2011
• E-Cigarettes Will Remain Legal but Unregulated Until the FDA Issues New Rules, Jacob Sullum, May 2, 2011
• How Did Toucan Sam Became a Scapebird for Childhood Obesity?, Jacob Sullum, April 29, 2011
• Wanted: Objective Scientific Studies of Ways to Constrain the Anti-Social Behavior of Evil, Food-Foisting Corporations, Jacob Sullum, April 28, 2011
• FDA Will Regulate E-Cigarettes As Tobacco Products, Jacob Sullum, April 27, 2011
• Eat As I Say, Not As I Eat, Jacob Sullum, April 8, 2011
• Wet and Wild Teens, Jacob Sullum, April 8, 2011
• Can't Shake the Shake Shakes, Jacob Sullum, April 6, 2011
• CARE Enough to Screw Over Wine Consumers, Jacob Sullum, April 4, 2011
• Briefly Noted: A History of Paternalism, Radley Balko, April 2011
• Alcohol Wholesalers Protect Maryland's Communities From the Horror of Online Wine Sales, Jacob Sullum, March 28, 2011
• Reason.tv: LA Food Police Ban Burger Joints - Is Your City Next?, March 23, 2011
• 'A Lot of Kids Are Going to Start Smoking Because of This Movie', Jacob Sullum, March 14, 2011
• More Co-Conspirators in the Light Cigarette 'Fraud', Jacob Sullum, March 7, 2011