ABOUT DR. JOHN LUIK
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 John Luik was educated on a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of
Oxford where he obtained degrees in philosophy and Politics (BA,MA,D Phil.). He has taught
philosophy and politics at several universities, been a Senior Associate of the Niagara
institute with responsibility for its work in public policy and its Values and
Organizational Development programmes, and worked as a consultant for a number of
governmental institutions, professional organizations and corporations.
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- Aside from the nature of public policy, his academic interests
include the ethics of advertising, business ethics, the process of organizational change,
medical ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Kant.
He has written on a number of philosophical problems including the process of legitimate
public policy in a democracy, the place of a university in a liberal society, the ethics
of euthanasia, Marxism and Christianity, humanism and the ethics of health promotion.
Both his 'Government Paternalism and Citizen Rationality' (1991) and
his 'Tobacco Advertising and the Dark Face of Government Paternalism' (1993) have
been used in business ethics case study texts. His most recent publications include 'Pandora's
Box: The Dangers of Politically Corrupted Science for Democratic public Policy'
(1994), 'Do Tobacco Advertising Bans Really Work?' (1994), 'I Can't Help
Myself: Addiction as Ideology' (1996), and the 'Smee Report' as a
contribution to the 'Tobacco Advertising Debate'
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