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Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the [[Democracy Institute]]<ref>About Us, [http://www.democracyinstitute.org/AboutUs.htm About Us], ''Democracy Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham is also the founding director of the [[Social Affairs Center]] at Canada’s [[Fraser Institute]], and senior fellow with the [[Cato Institute]]’s Center for Representative Government<ref>Think Tank: Biography, [http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/bio_2045.html Patrick Basham], PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham's role at the [[Fraser Institute]] involved publishing research on the subject of tobacco. The [[Fraser Institute]] have been accused of being a front group for the tobacco industry<ref>James Repace, [http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/cms/file/pdf/nfraser.pdf The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?], Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref><ref>In Depth: Fraser Institute, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fraserinstitute/ The Fraser Institute at 30], ''The Fraser Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with tobacco lobbyist [[John Luik]]<ref>Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001</ref>.
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Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the [[Democracy Institute]]<ref>About Us, [http://www.democracyinstitute.org/AboutUs.htm About Us], ''Democracy Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham is also the founding director of the [[Social Affairs Center]] at Canada’s [[Fraser Institute]], and senior fellow with the [[Cato Institute]]’s Center for Representative Government<ref>Think Tank: Biography, [http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/bio_2045.html Patrick Basham], PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham's role at the [[Fraser Institute]] involved publishing research on the subject of tobacco. The [[Fraser Institute]] have been accused of being a front group for the tobacco industry<ref>James Repace, [http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/cms/file/pdf/nfraser.pdf The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?], Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref><ref>In Depth: Fraser Institute, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fraserinstitute/ The Fraser Institute at 30], ''The Fraser Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref>. Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with tobacco lobbyist [[John Luik]]<ref>Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001</ref>. Basham is an adjunct scholar at the the Center for Representative Government at the [[Cato Institute]]<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-basham Patrick Basham], Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>, and is the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at the [[Fraser Institute]].<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-basham Patrick Basham], Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>. Some of his work includes; "What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban"<ref>Patrick Basham & John Luik, [http://www.aigeurope.org/?LinkServID=2632D613-D8BF-8054-2BADA1261BD2E949&showMeta=0 What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban], Democracy Institute Social Risk Series Paper, September 2009, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>, co-written with John Luik.
  
Basham is an adjunct scholar at the the Center for Representative Government at the [[Cato Institute]]<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-basham Patrick Basham], Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>, and is the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at the [[Fraser Institute]].<ref>[http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-basham Patrick Basham], Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>.
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Through the [[Fraser Institute]] who were funded by the tobacco industry, Basham worked as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry as recently as the year 2000<ref>Sherry Stein, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/f/f3/Sqac53a99.pdf Letter to Adrain Payne at British American Tobacco], 28-July-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010</ref><ref>Sherry Stein, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/d/d0/Slbc53a99.pdf Letter to Martin Broughton], 28-January-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref><ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/d/d0/Slbc53a99.pdf Public Policy Sources], The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref><ref>Press Release, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/c/ce/Sarh97d00.pdf Media Release], The Fraser Institute, 9-April-1999, Accessed Through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010</ref><ref>><ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/d/d0/Slbc53a99.pdf Public Policy Sources], The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref> Public Policy Sources], The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref>
 
 
Some of his work includes; "What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban"<ref>Patrick Basham & John Luik, [http://www.aigeurope.org/?LinkServID=2632D613-D8BF-8054-2BADA1261BD2E949&showMeta=0 What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban], Democracy Institute Social Risk Series Paper, September 2009, accessed 15 Feb 2010</ref>, co-written with John Luik.
 
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

Revision as of 21:23, 20 February 2010

Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the Democracy Institute[1]. Basham is also the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at Canada’s Fraser Institute, and senior fellow with the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government[2]. Basham's role at the Fraser Institute involved publishing research on the subject of tobacco. The Fraser Institute have been accused of being a front group for the tobacco industry[3][4]. Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with tobacco lobbyist John Luik[5]. Basham is an adjunct scholar at the the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute[6], and is the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at the Fraser Institute.[7]. Some of his work includes; "What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban"[8], co-written with John Luik.

Through the Fraser Institute who were funded by the tobacco industry, Basham worked as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry as recently as the year 2000[9][10][11][12]Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag Public Policy Sources], The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref>

Affiliations

Fraser Institute | Cato Institute | Democracy Institute | Spiked | Social Affairs Unit

Publications

  • Partrick Basham, 2010, Sri Lanka needs carrot, not stick, The Guardian, 14-Feb-2010
  • Patrick Basham and John Luik, 2010, A bleary-eyed attitude to alcohol research, 3-February-2010
  • Patrick Basham, 2010, President Obama’s Fork in the Road, 25-Jan-2010
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2010, The myth of an ‘obesity tsunami’, 22-Jan-2010
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2010, In Defense of Santa, 21-Jan-2010
  • Patrick Basham, 2009, Butt Out! How Philip Morris Burned Ted Kennedy, the FDA & the Anti-Tobacco Movement, Democracy Institute
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Are Public Smoking Bans Necessary?, 17-Dec-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Can the UK Avert a Smoking Irish Failure?, 29-October-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik 2009, The City That Never Smokes, 26-October-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Women keep drinking, 3-March-2009
  • DI Report, 2009, Alcohol Advertising Bans – September 200909-Sep-2009
  • Patrick Basham, 2009, The Senator and the Symbol, 28-Aug-2009
  • Patrick Basham, 2009, Afghanistan's Democratic Debacle, 21-Aug-2009
  • Patrick Basham, 2009, Displaying the truth about policymaking, 13-Aug-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, A fat doctor in the White House?, 29-Jul-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, on discrimination against fat African-American women, 29-Jul-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Banning alcohol ads won’t cure alcoholism, 21-Jul-2009 Tuesday 21 July 2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Turning fat people into social outcasts, on turning fat people into social outcasts, 30-Jun-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, Smoke gets in the government’s eyes, 23-Jun-2009
  • Patrick Basham, 2009, The unholy alliance between Philip Morris & the FDA in the Winston-Salem Journal, 06-Jun-2009
  • Patrick Basham and John Luik’s, 2009, KICKING THE SODA CAN: HARD TRUTHS ABOUT A SOFT DRINK TAX, 3-June-2009
  • Patrick Basham, 2009, Keep FDA away from tobacco Orange County Register, 3-June-2009
  • Patrick Basham & John Luik, 2009, A display of ignorance over youth smoking, 29 April 2009
  • John Luik, Patrick Basham & Gio Gori, 2006, Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade, Social Affairs Unit
  • Patrick Basham 2003, Defining democracy down: Explaining the campaign to repeal term limits
  • Patrick Basham, 2002, This is reform?: Predicting the impact of the new campaign financing regulations, Cato Institute
  • Patrick Basham, 2002, Does clean money make for competitive elections?: The failure of Maine's experiment with taxpayer financing of campaigns (Policy analysis)
  • Patrick Basham, 2001, Assessing the term limits experiment, California and beyond, The Cato Institute

Notes

  1. About Us, About Us, Democracy Institute, Accessed 10-February-2010
  2. Think Tank: Biography, Patrick Basham, PBS, Accessed 10-February-2010
  3. James Repace, The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?, Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010
  4. In Depth: Fraser Institute, The Fraser Institute at 30, The Fraser Institute, Accessed 10-February-2010
  5. Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001
  6. Patrick Basham, Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010
  7. Patrick Basham, Cato Institute website, accessed 15 Feb 2010
  8. Patrick Basham & John Luik, What's the BMA been drinking? The Case Against an Alcohol Ad Ban, Democracy Institute Social Risk Series Paper, September 2009, accessed 15 Feb 2010
  9. Sherry Stein, Letter to Adrain Payne at British American Tobacco, 28-July-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010
  10. Sherry Stein, Letter to Martin Broughton, 28-January-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010
  11. Patrick Basham, Public Policy Sources, The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010
  12. Press Release, Media Release, The Fraser Institute, 9-April-1999, Accessed Through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010