By the time you have finished reading this column another six people around
the world will have died from smoking. The WHO estimates that in the early 1990s
smoking killed about 3 million people a year, as you can find out at
http://www.who.ch/programmes/psa/toh/Alert/apr96/index.html.
It is an epidemic of medieval proportions.
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