Dr Sean Gabb On The Realities of Smoking.

Sometimes - A Case Can Be Badly Overstated.

The evidence for passive smoking is a joke. Some years ago, my late friend Judith Hatton – dead at 89 after smoking 80 a day from about the age of 15 – compared the number of cigarettes smoked per country with life expectancy: she found no obvious correlation. All this being said, I doubt that breathing in the smoke from dried vegetable matter is very good for you in the long term. And I do have more than a slight tendency of hypochondria. I got sick of diagnosing the symptoms of every cancer under the sun every time I lit up.