My friend’s Grandad is 102 years old. Until he was 100 years old he used to smoke a pipe and enjoy copious amounts of whisky. He also had a very sweet tooth, and consumed large amounts of sugar. Now, gently fading away in an old people’s home, he is denied the right to smoke or [...]

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 [...]

Nursing homes, as well as airlines, have also picked up on the benefit that the new e-cigarette can offer to their residents, many of whom have smoked all their lives, in early ignorance of the dangers to themselvs and others. However, these good people now find themselves, often fairly immobilised and in some degree of [...]