Treatment delay mooted: 27% back move to hit smokers

It would be cheering if today’s mid-term elections in America challenged the impression that we live in increasingly intolerant times. Immigrants, no matter how desperate, are stonewalled; antisemitism is resurgent and, encouraged at least tacitly by their president, America’s white-power racists behave as if this was 1818 rather than 2018.

Whether that intolerance feeds into the survey that found that more than one-in-four Irish people believe non-smokers with lung cancer should have their treatment prioritised over smokers is an entirely subjective matter.