• In “Through the smokescreen” (18 December, p 42), an editing error meant that a graph showing worldwide deaths from smoking was accompanied by an incorrect caption, which appeared to inflate the number of deaths. The caption should have read “Cumulative deaths caused by smoking…” instead of “Annual deaths caused by smoking…”.
• The Selendang Ayu, which ran aground off the Aleutian Islands, was a bulk carrier. Our headline (18 December 2004, p 5) wrongly called it a tanker.
