John C. Luik taught philosophy and management studies at a number of universities, has been Senior Associate of the Niagara Institute with responsibility for its work in public policy and leadership and organizational change, and has worked as a consultant for governmental institutions, professional organizations, and corporations in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. He was educated on a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford where he obtained his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. degrees. His academic interests include public policy, particularly the use of science in policy and the question of government intervention to change risky behaviours, the ethics of advertising and business, and philosophy.
He is a frequent media commentator and conference speaker and the author of numerous ar ticles and several books. His most recent publications include: The Assault on Pleasure: Health Promotion and Engineering the Human Soul , Pandora's Box: The Dangers of Corrupted Science for Democratic Public Policy , Smokescreen: Passive Smoking and Public Policy, I Can't Help Myself: Addiction as Ideology, Advertising and Markets, Humanism , and The Problem of Permission for Pleasure in a Democratic Society . Most recently, he is the co-author with Gio Gori of the book, Passive Smoke: The EPA's Betrayal of Science and Policy , published by The Fraser Institute