Spiked

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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

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References

  1. ↑Patrick Basham and John Luik, “The fag end of advocacy research”, Spiked Online, 3 July 2008, Accessed February 2012
  2. ↑Patrick Basham and John Luik, “Cigarettes and celluloid: a dubious link”, Spiked Online, 21 July 2008, Accessed February 2012
  3. ↑Patrick Basham and John Luik, “Putting the government’s ignorance on display”, Spiked Online, 11 December 2008, Accessed February 2012
  4. ↑Patrick Basham and John Luik, “A year of myths about smoking and obesity” Spiked Online, 23 December 2008, Accessed February 2012
  5. ↑Patrick Basham and John Luik, their ignorance on smoking”, Spiked Online, 29 April 2009, Accessed February 2012
  6. ↑Patrick Basham, Displaying the truth about policymaking, Spiked Online, 13 August 2009, Accessed February 2012
  7. ↑Patrick Basham and John Luik, “NYC: the city that never smokes”,Spiked Online, 26 October 2009, Accessed February 2012
  8. ↑Christopher Snowdon, “Health fears go up in smoke”, Spiked Online, 2 December 2008, Accessed February 2012
  9. ↑Christopher Snowdon, out ‘deniers’ and ‘dissidents’”, Spiked Online, 17 February 2009, Accessed February 2012
  10. ↑Christopher Snowdon, ‘Smokers are now treated like lepers, Spiked Online, 16 June 2009, Accessed February 2012
  11. ↑Christopher Snowdon, “The myth of the smoking ban ‘miracle’”, Spiked Online, 24 September 2009, Accessed February 2012
  12. ↑Suzy Dean, “Is anywhere free from the anti-smoking lobby?” Spiked Online, 19 June 2009, Accessed February 2012
  13. ↑Joe Jackson, “How killjoys colonised Britain’s public houses”, Spiked Online, 10 August 2009, Accessed February 2012
  14. ↑Hands Off Our Packs, “Plain packaging is a free speech issue”, 24 April 2012,
  15. ↑Chris Snowdon, Old moralism in new packaging, Spiked Online, 24 April 2012
  16. ↑Patrick Basham, Monkey see, monkey smoke? Spiked Online, 24 April 2012
  17. ↑GTNF ANTWERP 2012: Look who is talking and what they are talking about, GTNF 2012 website, accessed 6 April 2012

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