Public Health

Policy

If You Can Smell It, It May Be Killing You

Jacob Sullum | 10.17.2007 1:12 PM

Policy

Big Fat Lies and Carb Calumny

Jacob Sullum | 10.12.2007 12:23 PM

Policy

Tobacco Harm Reduction Catches On

Jacob Sullum | 10.10.2007 1:56 PM

Policy

Your Place: The Final Frontier

Anti-tobacco crusaders boldly go into smokers' homes.

Jacob Sullum | 10.10.2007 6:22 AM

Policy

FDA Chief: Please Don't Make Us Regulate Tobacco

Jacob Sullum | 10.9.2007 5:27 PM

Policy

Calabasas Has Had It With Belmont's Nosier-Than-Thou Attitude

Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2007 12:21 PM

Policy

Smokers' Kids May As Well Smoke, Because They're Doomed Anyway

Jacob Sullum | 10.2.2007 4:39 PM

Policy

Why Fox Isn't Bragging About Its Smoke-Free Movies

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2007 5:33 PM

Policy

Is It the Smoke or the Smoking?

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2007 5:44 PM

Policy

Campos and Brownell Chew the Fat

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2007 3:32 PM

Policy

NHS to Smoker With Fractured Ankle: Walk It Off

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2007 12:41 PM

Policy

Middle-Agers Today…

Jacob Sullum | 9.18.2007 5:25 PM

Policy

The Secret Shame of the Furtive Smoker, Belmont Edition

Jacob Sullum | 9.17.2007 6:49 PM

Policy

Does the Times Understand the Difference Between Safer and Safe?

Jacob Sullum | 8.23.2007 11:25 AM

Policy

'If They Can Come Into Our Car, They Can Come Into Our Homes'

Jacob Sullum | 8.16.2007 12:25 PM

Policy

The Fine for Vaccinating Your Cat

Jacob Sullum | 8.7.2007 4:30 PM

Policy

Don't Make Friends With Fat People…They're Contagious!

Jonathan Blanks | 7.26.2007 8:26 AM

Policy

Heartstopping Headlines About Diet Drinks

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2007 5:40 AM

Policy

Politics and Public Health

Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona has his own problems with politicizing science.

Radley Balko | 7.23.2007 11:33 AM

Policy

Take an AIDS test—Win a Pickup Truck!!!

Juliet Samuel | 7.12.2007 3:07 PM

Policy

First Statewide Trans Fat Ban Looks Likely

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2007 8:39 AM

Policy

Another Reason to Welcome High Gas Prices

Jacob Sullum | 7.5.2007 8:27 AM

Policy

Capitalism's War Against Men

Michael Moynihan | 7.2.2007 11:15 AM

Politics

And the Federal Budget Will Be 100 Percent of GDP

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2007 4:44 PM

Policy

They're Still Grrreat!

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2007 4:35 PM

Policy

Did Public Health Officials Underreact, Overreact, or Both?

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2007 4:35 PM

Policy

The Difference a Germ Makes

TB Andrew reminds us what a real public health threat looks like.

Jacob Sullum | 6.6.2007 6:51 AM

Policy

Questions About Quarantine?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.4.2007 5:26 PM

Policy

Maybe Libertarian Paternalism Is an Oxymoron

Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2007 2:01 PM

Politics

An Epidemic of Meddling

The totalitarian implications of public health

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2007 3:02 PM

Policy

'We Should Not Delay in Allowing Snus to Compete'

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2007 1:55 PM

Policy

A Little Like a Dying Clown, With a Streak of Rin Tin Tin

Radley Balko | 5.15.2007 1:25 PM

Policy

Startling New Finding: Smoke Is Thicker Near Smokers

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2007 5:31 PM

Policy

LA's Toilet Envy

Nick Gillespie | 5.3.2007 3:19 PM

Policy

KFC Lawsuit Dismissed

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2007 4:43 PM

Policy

Was Linus Pauling Off by One Letter?

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2007 5:31 PM

Policy

Benign Cells?

Cancer and Mobile Phones

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2007 10:45 AM

Policy

"Remove Child Before Folding" And Other Modern Prose Poems

The fine art of idiotic warning labels

Nick Gillespie | 2.26.2007 5:16 AM

Politics

HIV Skepticism Gets A Day in Court Down Under

Brian Doherty | 2.22.2007 7:36 PM

Policy

Injecting Speed

Why the rush to require the HPV vaccine?

Jesse Walker | 2.20.2007 5:56 AM

Policy

How 'Big Nutrition' Destroys Your Will to Fatness

Awash in healthy choices, starving brains seek sugary relief.

Greg Beato | 1.11.2007 5:56 AM

Policy

Who Owns Your Organs?

So You Can't Sell Your Kidneys. Can You Give Them Away?

Kerry Howley | 12.29.2006 9:58 AM

Policy

Trans Fat Free at Last

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 12:51 PM

Policy

Should We All Be Like Mike?

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 11:35 AM

Policy

Trans Fat Transformation

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 12:42 PM

Policy

Lay Off the Fatties

They're not hurting anybody -- maybe not even themselves.

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 7:29 AM

Policy

How the Upper Crust Eats

Food as a status symbol

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.25.2006 12:27 PM

Policy

Rant: The Night Chicago Died

Suddenly, it's hard to be a sinner in the Windy City

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2006 11:56 AM