Banning smoking outdoors is seldom ethically justifiable

Banning smoking outdoors is seldom ethically justifiable.

" Debate " is a new series oVering opposing sides of a continuing, controversial issue in tobacco control. In this and the two responses that follow, the pros and cons of banning smoking outdoors are discussed by the Banning smoking outdoors is seldom ethically justifiable Several Australian hospitals are proposing to extend their indoor smoking bans outdoors. In 1996, the mayor of Friendship H...

Banning outdoor smoking is scientifically justifiable.

Is Editing the Genome for Climate Change Adaptation Ethically Justifiable?

As climate change progresses, we humans might have to inhabit a world for which we are increasingly maladapted. If we were able to identify genes that directly influence our ability to thrive in a changing climate, would it be ethically justifiable to edit the human genome to enhance our ability to adapt to this new environment? Should we use gene editing not only to prevent significant disease...

Is Cataract Couching Ever Justifiable?

Sir,?That almost diametrically opposite opinions as to the results of " couching" in India should be held by Majors Maynard and Smith is striking. The question at issue is an important one and we need accuracy. The former officer in a carefully worked out paper gives 46 per cent of good vision after an interval of five years, the latter does not quote figures but states that the vast majority o...

Is Cataract Couching Ever Justifiable?

reproduce my paper criticised therein which appeared in the Ophthalmic Review, Vol. XXII, April, 1903. In the Ophthalmoscope for December 1904, in a brief notice of Major Smith's paper I came across the following paragraph, but though objecting to its inferences I decided to take 110 notice of it. "Smith is, therefore, of opinion (despite the views recently expressed by Power, Maynard and other...