Public Health

Politics

Who Decides If Breast Tests Are Best?

Patients should make their own choices about mammograms, not bureaucrats.

Ronald Bailey | 11.24.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Joose It Up! (While You Can!)

Jacob Sullum | 11.19.2009 4:33 PM

Policy

Menu Mandate's Missing Math

You can show people calorie numbers, but you can't make them count.

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Police Defend, Lie About Devices That Extract Money From and Cause Bodily Harm to Citizens

Matt Welch | 11.11.2009 5:56 PM

Policy

Kids Today, With Their Briar Pipes and Fancy Cigars

Jacob Sullum | 11.6.2009 12:58 PM

Policy

Swine Flu: The Mystery Epidemic

Brian Doherty | 10.26.2009 3:34 PM

Policy

Myocardial Infractions

A government-commissioned report promotes smoking bans by tweaking the evidence.

Jacob Sullum | 10.21.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

CDC-Commissioned Report Says More Evidence Is Needed to Decide Whether Smoking Bans Are Good

Jacob Sullum | 10.16.2009 2:33 PM

Policy

The Real Swine Flu Hazard

Nick Gillespie | 10.15.2009 9:09 AM

Policy

Keats Has TB, Hearts Hamburgers

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.13.2009 3:15 PM

Policy

You Can Show a Fat Bastard Calories, but You Can't Make Him Count

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2009 5:41 PM

Policy

Why Skydivers Would Be Better Off Without Parachutes

Jacob Sullum | 10.5.2009 6:13 PM

Policy

The FDA Is Not Sure Whether Smoking Is Worse Than Not Smoking

Jacob Sullum | 10.2.2009 1:31 PM

Policy

Sweet Lies About Kids and Smoking

The FDA's new ban on flavored cigarettes won't prevent teen smoking

Steve Chapman | 9.28.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Mayor Bloomberg's Salty Tooth

Jacob Sullum | 9.24.2009 11:13 AM

Policy

Sometimes a Cigar Is a Cigarette

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2009 11:41 AM

Policy

Camel Snus in the Tent

Jacob Sullum | 9.22.2009 6:30 PM

Policy

The Candid Paternalism Underlying New York's Outdoor Smoking Ban

Jacob Sullum | 9.15.2009 10:46 AM

Policy

Again, With Feeling: Thinner Is Not Cheaper

Jacob Sullum | 9.10.2009 12:26 PM

Policy

Drink Yourself Fit

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2009 3:09 PM

Policy

New York City Decrees That Coffee and Tobacco Do Not Mix

Jacob Sullum | 8.31.2009 3:37 PM

Policy

Help! I've Reached the Obesity Tipping Point, and I Can't Get Up!

Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2009 7:28 PM

Policy

One Man's Dinner Party Is Another Man's Binge, Especially If the Other Man Has a Degree in Public Health

Jacob Sullum | 8.17.2009 1:41 PM

Policy

What If All Smokers Used Smokeless Tobacco Instead?

Jacob Sullum | 8.13.2009 4:40 PM

Policy

E-Cigarettes Look More Effective Than Nicotine Gum or Patches

Jacob Sullum | 8.10.2009 1:08 PM

Policy

Fat Load

A slimmer America won't save taxpayers money.

Jacob Sullum | 8.5.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

What's Sauce for Pizza Hut Is Sauce for Famous Original Ray's

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2009 3:27 PM

Policy

State-by-State E-Cigarette Bans?

Jacob Sullum | 8.3.2009 1:43 PM

Politics

On Friday the Priest Got His Goat

Jacob Sullum | 7.31.2009 6:11 PM

Policy

Nap Demographics Weirdly Fascinating

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.30.2009 3:36 PM

Policy

If Obesity Saves Taxpayers Money, Should It Be Encouraged?

Jacob Sullum | 7.27.2009 12:16 PM

Policy

When Carcinogens Are FDA-Approved, You Needn't Worry About Them

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2009 7:55 PM

Policy

Obesity Levels Off; Complacency Threatens to Reach Alarming Levels

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2009 11:45 AM

Policy

Suddenly I Don't Feel Like a Chili Dog Anymore

Jacob Sullum | 7.8.2009 11:43 AM

Policy

Mexico on the Verge of Decriminalizing Drug Possession

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2009 12:39 PM

Policy

Philip Morris, Hero of the Anti-Smoking Movement

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2009 11:21 AM

Policy

FDA Will Regulate Tobacco Products (But Don't Tell Consumers)

Jacob Sullum | 6.11.2009 5:36 PM

Policy

Panic! We're (Not) All Going to Die!

Bill Flanigen | 6.11.2009 3:29 PM

Policy

Covering Their Butts

Why it's misleading to say the FDA is regulating cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 6.10.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

'One of the Worst Public Health Laws Ever Conceived'

Jacob Sullum | 6.4.2009 11:47 AM

Policy

If It's Not Regulated, How Can It Be Safer Than Sucking Smoke?

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2009 1:53 PM

Policy

Swine Flu Fantasies

A testing epidemic, spread by media ignorance

Terry Michael | 6.2.2009 12:00 PM

Policy

Why Not Tax Thin Nonsmokers?

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2009 6:14 PM

Politics

Appeals Court Says Cigarette Makers Are Racketeers

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2009 4:44 PM

Policy

The Swine Flu Panic That Wasn't

Mass hysteria fails to materialize. Again.

Jesse Walker | 5.18.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

Trans Fat Prohibitionist to Head CDC

Jacob Sullum | 5.15.2009 1:12 PM

Policy

Rise of the Soda Jerks

The case against sin taxes for soft drinks

David Harsanyi | 5.13.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

A Federal Soft Drink Tax?

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2009 5:08 PM