Taxpayers’ money gets spent in increasingly unusual ways these days. Just a few months ago, we were told that we’re buying some rubbish bits of banks and yesterday I awoke to the somewhat hilarious news that health officials in Dundee have decided that they are going to bribe people in order to get them to stop smoking.
Apparently, cigarette smokers [...]

The ongoing saga surrounding the electronic cigarette continues apace, without any resolution appearing imminent it seems. Some governments are even recommending that companies do not continue to market them until they have been tested by health organisations and officially declared safe.
My father, a non smoker, developed lung cancer and died as a result of passive [...]