With the dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting so well established, an eternal optimist may well hold the view that healthcare providers are easily able to convince their smoking patients to put it out for good. Alas, tobacco use continues to be one of the frontrunning causes of premature morbidity and mortality in South Africa and it may well be the leading single cause of death by 2030 in most developing countries1.
South Africans indeed do not appear...