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Letter: Immortal smokers

Published 19 December 1998

From Colin Higgins, Nottingham University

Death seems to be optional in your 28 November edition.

In the
“Deadly impacts”
table on page 4, the third “deadly impact” seems to
have resulted in no deaths. And on page 18
(“The Chinese way of death”), half
the smokers seem to have found the secret of immortality: “We know that one in
two smokers will die”.

Nottingham

Issue no. 2165 published 19 December 1998

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