title: Losing patients with smoking.
abstract: Barry Clifton's article on the freedom to smoke (Freedom up in smoke, Viewpoint, May 26) reminds me of how in 1982 I owned a nursing home which at first did accept smokers.
authors.affiliation: Bath.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Oxfordshire.
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Neill