Smoking
‘Quitting is suffering’
Hon Lik, life-saving inventor of the e-cigarette, on why he did it
Letters
The long arm of the FBI Sir: The White House may be less willing than it was to play the…
Big fat myths
Obesity isn’t soaring, and it doesn’t strain the NHS
Dear Mary
Q. I felt uncomfortable during a dinner for 20 in a private house. The young man on my left had…
Artificial life
Mad Men looked great but, as the final season draws to a close, was there really anything to it, wonders James Delingpole
Dear Mary: Your Problems Solved
Q. Since recycling was introduced in our village, the wall at the end of our drive has become the depositing…
Why I intend to become an addict
When the White Queen told Alice she had sometimes believed as many as six contradictory things before breakfast, she spoke…
Stoptober makes me sick
Say what you like about the French Revolutionaries but at least they had a poetic imagination. When they wanted a…
Long life
I have been, on and off, a lifelong smoker; but I gave up in January 2009 on the day of…
Vape alarm
The e-cigarette means that tobacco is going the way of the top hat. So what is the medical establishment’s problem with it?
Diary
There’s no reason why you should have heard of me. No reason why you would have watched a Channel 4…
Long life
In Dorchester during the Christmas holiday I bought a two-slice electric toaster at Currys. It was a nice little toaster…
Does the BMA prefer real fags to e-cigarettes?
What strategy should we adopt to cope with the British Medical Association? Its members kill more people each year than…
Long life
The government has done a puzzling U-turn over its plan to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. It had seemed determined…
