E-cigarettes — friend or foe? - No smoking without fire

Our eating and dietary habits are as varied as we are. One year’s super diet, one season’s super food is destined to become next year’s leftovers.

In this quagmire of couscous and seeds, this ebb and flow of high-fat and low-fat prophets there is a constant: Smoking has no place in a healthy diet and any measure that makes it difficult for tobacco conglomerates to recruit addicts must be supported.

The World Health Organisation recognised that yesterday when it suggested e-cigarettes be banned from indoor spaces and face curbs over health fears. That position follows less emphatic positions from the American Heart Foundation and the American Cancer Society which have suggested the devices might be a last resort to help smokers quit.