Spiked
Background
Spiked is an online magazine that is part of what is regarded as a network of pro-corporate libertarians who were affiliated with LM Magazine. It is currently edited by Brendan O'Neill and the ex-Times columnist Mick Hume.
Pro-Smoking
The magazine has a history of its own bloggers as well as known pro-smoking activists publishing articles attacking public health professionals, the smoking ban, the display ban, whilst downplaying the risks of second hand smoke, among other issues. Contributors include:
Against Plain Packaging
In April 2012, Spiked joined Forest's Hands Off Our Packs campaign. Brendan O'Neill, the editor of Spiked, said: “Plain packaging is a free speech issue, plain and simple." [14] To mark the occasion, Spiked ran articles by Chris Snowdon [15] and Patrick Basham [16].
Attending Industry Events
Spiked co-editor Mick Hume was listed as a speaker at the 2012 Global Tobacco Networking Forum, an annual tobacco-industry-funded event now known as the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum.[17]
Notes
- ↑ Patrick Basham and John Luik, "The fag end of advocacy research", Spiked Online, 3 July 2008, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Patrick Basham and John Luik, "Cigarettes and celluloid: a dubious link", Spiked Online, 21 July 2008, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Patrick Basham and John Luik, "Putting the government’s ignorance on display", Spiked Online, 11 December 2008, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Patrick Basham and John Luik, "A year of myths about smoking and obesity" Spiked Online, 23 December 2008, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Patrick Basham and John Luik, "Displaying their ignorance on smoking", Spiked Online, 29 April 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Patrick Basham, Displaying the truth about policymaking, Spiked Online, 13 August 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Patrick Basham and John Luik, "NYC: the city that never smokes",Spiked Online, 26 October 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Christopher Snowdon, "Health fears go up in smoke", Spiked Online, 2 December 2008, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Christopher Snowdon, "Smoking out ‘deniers’ and ‘dissidents’", Spiked Online, 17 February 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Christopher Snowdon, ‘Smokers are now treated like lepers, Spiked Online, 16 June 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Christopher Snowdon, "The myth of the smoking ban ‘miracle’", Spiked Online, 24 September 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Suzy Dean, "Is anywhere free from the anti-smoking lobby?" Spiked Online, 19 June 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Joe Jackson, "How killjoys colonised Britain’s public houses", Spiked Online, 10 August 2009, Accessed February 2012
- ↑ Hands Off Our Packs, "Plain packaging is a free speech issue", 24 April 2012,
- ↑ Chris Snowdon, Old moralism in new packaging, Spiked Online, 24 April 2012
- ↑ Patrick Basham, Monkey see, monkey smoke? Spiked Online, 24 April 2012
- ↑ GTNF ANTWERP 2012: Look who is talking and what they are talking about, GTNF 2012 website, accessed 6 April 2012