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A SMART exchange of views
“The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life” (Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest). Other than in domesticity, there can be few better opportunities for open warfare than the correspondence columns of an academic journal. In this issue we publish a sometimes heated correspondence arising from Chapman et al's recent review article on the SMART regime for asthma (Thorax 2010;65:747–52), the authors' reply, and the Editor in Chiefs' attempts to pour petrol on the flames. We want to encourage vigorous debate and controversy; where do you stand on SMART? Either way, the Journal should be a place of cut and thrust scholarship, not somnolent like the smoking room of a London Club; please join in on this and other issues. See pages 86–88
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No-one would dispute the right of an adult to poison him- or herself, even in particularly terrible ways. But this right does not extend to poisoning those around themselves, …
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