10th December 2013, 09:18 PM
I have been a non smoker all my life but this is mainly because I was asthmatic. When I took up archaeology the pull of the social fag was alomost iresistible. Fortunately I did not succumb, as I get older the number of my contemporaries and those slightly older who have been taken by lung cancer is ever increasing. Of family and friends who have gone cancer has been the biggest killer with lung cancer outrunning all the others. It's pretty depressing. I think I'd better take up kite flying (a non archaeologist friend of mine went to one of John's talks and was very impressed by it)