Public Health

Policy

Where's the Fire?

The rush to ban electronic cigarettes is hazardous to smokers' health.

Jacob Sullum | 4.8.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Keeping FDA Regulation of Cigarettes a Secret

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2009 3:48 PM

Policy

FDA Regulation Threatens Cigarette Alternatives

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2009 1:14 PM

Policy

More Support for Fast-Food-Free School Zones

Jacob Sullum | 3.23.2009 4:46 PM

Policy

He Should Have Passed the Cigarette to the Girl

Jacob Sullum | 2.18.2009 2:52 PM

Policy

If You Question the Deadliness of Secondhand Smoke, You Might As Well Question the Deadliness of Zyklon B

Jacob Sullum | 2.13.2009 12:46 PM

Policy

Can a New York Bureaucrat Put the Whole Country on a Low-Salt Diet?

Jacob Sullum | 1.29.2009 11:34 AM

Politics

No Wonder She Never Tackled the Shopaholism Epidemic

Jacob Sullum | 1.28.2009 3:04 PM

Policy

Illicit Fun in Dallas

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2009 5:14 PM

Policy

Thirdhand Smoke Alarm

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2009 6:44 PM

Policy

Chicago Rules

It's good to be the alderman

Radley Balko | 1.1.2009 10:00 AM

Policy

Soda Pop and Nipple Clamps: When Sex Metaphors Penetrate Discussions of Public Health

Mike Riggs | 12.30.2008 1:10 PM

Policy

The Smoke Clears in Scotland

Jacob Sullum | 12.9.2008 3:26 PM

Policy

Heart Attacks and the Massachusetts Smoking Ban

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2008 12:11 PM

Policy

Economic Anxiety Leads to Smoking, Especially in Casinos

Jacob Sullum | 10.13.2008 5:08 PM

Policy

MADD Logic

Is it irresponsible to even suggest lowering the drinking age?

Jacob Sullum | 8.27.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

Who's Afraid of Calorie Counts?

Jacob Sullum | 8.22.2008 3:21 PM

Policy

Can Rising Motorcycle Fatalities Be Blamed on a Lack of Helmet Laws?

Jacob Sullum | 8.20.2008 1:21 PM

Policy

Are You Sure You Want Fries With That?

Mandatory calorie counts cross the line between informing and nagging.

Jacob Sullum | 8.20.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

Reason Writers Around Town: Ron Bailey on Hyping Health Risks

Reason Staff | 8.19.2008 3:00 PM

Policy

Bernie Parks Encourages Smoking

Jacob Sullum | 8.13.2008 3:36 PM

Policy

If Everyone Is Overweight, Is Anyone?

Jacob Sullum | 8.6.2008 5:30 PM

Policy

Smoking Ban Increases Heart Attacks

Jacob Sullum | 8.5.2008 7:17 PM

Policy

Smoke 'Em While You Can

Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2008 10:52 AM

Policy

House Approves Philip Morris Protection Act

Jacob Sullum | 7.30.2008 7:42 PM

Policy

What About Famous Original Singas Pizza?

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2008 4:40 PM

Policy

When the Government Does It, It's Not Fraud

Jacob Sullum | 7.17.2008 6:39 PM

Policy

Armed and Dangerous?

Why buying a gun is not a suicidal act

Steve Chapman | 7.14.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

What About Fat Kids With Low Cholesterol?

Jacob Sullum | 7.7.2008 2:37 PM

Policy

Too Much Information?

Why menu labeling laws are bound to fail

Radley Balko | 6.25.2008 4:00 PM

Policy

I Swear, Officer, It's Only Marijuana!

Jacob Sullum | 6.25.2008 2:38 PM

Policy

"When it comes to public health, I don't think I have any apology for that"

Damon Root | 6.25.2008 10:01 AM

Policy

The Difference Between Informing and Nagging

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2008 1:13 PM

Policy

Accidents, Murders, Preemies, Fat, and U.S. Life Expectancy

American health care to the rescue?

Ronald Bailey | 6.17.2008 5:00 PM

Politics

I Didn't Ask for Help

Mike Riggs | 6.16.2008 11:47 AM

Policy

The Top Ten Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems

The final dispatch from the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus Conference

Ronald Bailey | 5.30.2008 3:00 PM

Policy

Pouch vs. Patch

Jacob Sullum | 5.29.2008 5:30 PM

Policy

And the World's Top Priority Is… Free Trade?*

The fourth dispatch from the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus Conference

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2008 4:30 PM

Policy

As Fat As We're Gonna Be?

Jacob Sullum | 5.28.2008 8:15 PM

Policy

Salty Fears

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2008 11:46 AM

Politics

Raw Milk Rebellion

How much business does the government have in the barnyard?

Jacob Grier | 5.16.2008 3:00 PM

Policy

Friday Funnies

General disarray

Henry Payne | 5.16.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

The Times Discovers the Tobacco Bill's Flavoritism

Jacob Sullum | 5.13.2008 6:12 PM

Policy

Inhale Your Vapor If You've Got It

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2008 12:47 PM

Policy

'How Would You Like It If You Went to a Wine Tasting and You Couldn't Taste the Wine?'

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2008 2:53 PM

Policy

One Vice at a Time, Please

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2008 11:53 AM

Policy

Debating CSPI

Radley Balko | 4.21.2008 1:24 PM