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Letters

• Thalidomide inhibits the intractable cough of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (28 July, 2008)

  M R Horton, S K Danoff, N Lechtzin
• Counting, analysing and reporting exacerbations of COPD in randomised controlled trials (28 July, 2008)

  J Vestbo
• Author’s reply (28 July, 2008)

  S D Aaron
• IL1 may be elevated but is it all bad in ARDS? (28 July, 2008)

  D R Thickett, G D Perkins
• Authors’ reply (28 July, 2008)

  J A Frank, J Francois-Pittet, M A Matthay
• Pre-cessation varenicline treatment vs post-cessation NRT: an uneven playing field (28 July, 2008)

  J E Rose
• Authors’ reply (28 July, 2008)

  H-J Aubin, A Bobak, J R Britton, C Oncken, C B Billing, J Gong, K E Williams, K R Reeves
• Clinically significant outcomes in smoking cessation (28 July, 2008)

  T Hillman, K Rajakulasingam, A Bhowmik
• Authors’ reply (28 July, 2008)

  H-J Aubin, A Bobak, J R Britton, C Oncken, C B Billing, J Gong, K E Williams, K R Reeves