i can't tell if you're taking the piss or not. you can't honestly be suggesting that someone should get preferential treatment because of notoriety or sporting achievement? Well I don't work in the NHS anymore but a lot of my family still do' date=' and that's not how I understood it to work. I took my information from [url']http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/about_transplants/organ_allocation/organ_allocation.jsp Good information on that site about becoming a donor too. Not sure if you're addressing me directly, or the contributors to this thread as a whole. I haven't insulted you though, and I didn't intend to patronise you either, if that's what you're implying. As regards to the post about these threads being done before - it was in the hope that people could see that most of the threads are just circular arguments based on strong opinions and sentiment, with no rational conclusion, and more often than not, the threads seem to be a vehicle for insults and bad feeling. The point being, there's little need to go through all that again. I can understand why smokers feel put out by the legislation, however, there was public consultation on the issue before it became statute - if there was such furious opposition, it would have arisen at that stage - such opposition never materialised though.