Public Health

Policy

Cancel the War and Fix the Wounded

Most people don't overindulge. Some do. Let's help the ones who need it, and leave the rest alone.

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.17.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Nicotine Gum and Patches May Not Work, but at Least They're Officially Approved

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2012 1:33 PM

Politics

Nanny Bloomberg Targets Alcohol

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2012 4:01 PM

Policy

Will Scotch in a Can Get the Four Loko Treatment?

Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2012 6:15 PM

Policy

Dick Durbin: Ban Flavored Cigars—for the Children

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2011 2:08 PM

Politics

Republicans Restore Ban on Needle Exchange Funding

Jacob Sullum | 12.16.2011 2:36 PM

Policy

IOM Report Recommends That the FDA Continue Suppressing Lifesaving Information About Cigarette Alternatives

Jacob Sullum | 12.14.2011 5:51 PM

Policy

Wait, Honey Smacks Have a Lot of Sugar?

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2011 2:58 PM

Policy

Smart Kids Do Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2011 4:28 PM

Policy

Obama's 'Innovative, Compassionate, and Evidence-Based Drug Policies'

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2011 3:48 PM

Policy

To Prevent Kids From Smoking Cigarettes, New York Bars Adults From Buying Flavored Cigars

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2011 3:26 PM

Policy

Boston Bans E-Cigarettes in Workplaces, Just Because

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2011 11:23 AM

Policy

Roll Your Own, Avoid the Taxes

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2011 5:18 PM

Policy

Fast Food Is Not a Poor Choice

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2011 12:11 PM

Politics

Phobos-Grunt, We Hardly Knew Ye

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.9.2011 2:51 PM

Policy

Better Off Vaping

Jacob Sullum | 11.9.2011 12:46 PM

Policy

Public Health and the Tyranny of the Common Good

Mississippi's proposed "personhood" amendment extends progressivism to the uterus.

A. Barton Hinkle | 11.8.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Federal Judge Blocks New Cigarette Warning Labels

Jacob Sullum | 11.7.2011 3:48 PM

Policy

Want to Live Forever? Sonia Arrison Explains How In Her New Book

Paul Feine and Sharif Matar | 10.19.2011 12:50 PM

Policy

Mark Bittman Corrects Fact-Resistant Food Policy Analysts…Such As Mark Bittman

Jacob Sullum | 10.17.2011 3:09 PM

Policy

FTC Claims Phusion Projects Misled Consumers by Implying They Could Drink Four Loko Out of the Can

Jacob Sullum | 10.4.2011 6:15 PM

Policy

Bloomberg: Paternalism Is 'Government's Highest Duty'

Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2011 4:16 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Couple Heading to Court after Hosting Home Bible Study! (Nanny of the Month, Sept 2011)

Ted Balaker | 10.3.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

If Traffic Deaths Were Rising, Would the Los Angeles Times Be Less Alarmed?

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 5:31 PM

Policy

Does Disease Cause Autocracy?

New studies say reducing infection rates promotes liberalization.

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Smoking Bans Are No Match For New Yorkers

Anthony Fisher | 9.15.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

Sebelius Assured Congress She Could Fix ObamaCare's CLASS Act. HHS's Proposed Legislative Fix Suggests She Believed Otherwise.

Peter Suderman | 9.15.2011 11:15 AM

Politics

Bachmann's Vaccine Panic

Baseless fear-mongering from the Minnesota conservative

Steve Chapman | 9.15.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Has Rick Perry Neutralized the Gardasil Controversy?

Jacob Sullum | 9.14.2011 12:20 PM

Policy

Data From Seven States Show No Connection Between Smoking Bans and Heart Attack Rates

Jacob Sullum | 9.13.2011 3:27 PM

Policy

Who Will Protect Children From Dangerously Exciting Cartoons?

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2011 3:32 PM

Policy

WTO Rejects U.S. Ban on Clove Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 9.9.2011 12:18 PM

Politics

Best Wishes to Robert Greene, Editorialist

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.2.2011 12:57 PM

Policy

'Childhood Itself Is Now in Crisis'

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2011 5:19 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Michigan Bar Owners Ban Lawmakers for Banning Smoking! (Nanny of the Month, Aug 2011)

Ted Balaker | 9.1.2011 11:40 AM

Policy

Another Multi-City Study Finds No Link Between Smoking Bans and Heart Attack Rates

Jacob Sullum | 8.26.2011 4:55 PM

Policy

Obama Supports a 'Public Health' Approach to Drugs, but Only in Theory

Jacob Sullum | 7.27.2011 4:45 PM

Policy

Meddling in Other People's Diets Is 'Fun' and 'Inspiring'

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2011 2:32 PM

Policy

MRSA: Another Way Pot Prohibition Enhances Public Health

Jacob Sullum | 7.11.2011 4:31 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: The War on Lemonade Stands! Nanny of the Month (June 2011)

Ted Balaker | 7.1.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Q&A with Farmageddon's director Kristin Canty

Nick Gillespie and Anthony Fisher | 6.30.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Among the Biotech Conventioneers

A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.

Ronald Bailey | 6.28.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

No Cigars in Cigar City

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 4:35 PM

Policy

Another Victory in Drug Harm Multiplication

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2011 4:49 PM

Policy

Evidently Smoking Is Bad for You

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2011 6:12 PM

Policy

A Dose of Depressing Vaccine Data

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.15.2011 12:30 PM