Would you rather 5,000 lives a year were saved or moralise about health? | Barbara Ellen

Smokers are just as deserving of screening as those who follow virtuous lifestyles Who could object to the NHS screening smokers for lung cancer - aren't their lives as important as everyone else's? Prof Charles Swanton, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, argues that 5,000 lives could be saved each year by introducing screening for lung cancer. The people screened would be classed as at risk, either from their own smoking or a family history of lung cancer. Swanton and other experts spoke be...