Over in Kiwi the Kiwi Blog is highlighting an article exposing faulty reasoning behind estimates of smoking costs. Estimates of smoking costs there have suddenly jumped from $350 million dollars to $1.9 billion dollars and one journalist was attempting to work out why. David Crampton found that the Ministry of Health arrived at the estimate [...]

Read about the mischief you can get up to when you are stuck in hospital with an electronic cigarette.

I was talking to an eminent cancer doctor yesterday, and we discussed the end of life of a late, close friend of mine from lung cancer. The hospital made considerable efforts to make his last days as comfortable as possible, but he would go outside in apalling weather – to smoke another cigarette. The subject [...]