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Brickbats

Brickbat: No Surgery for You

Charles Oliver | 10.24.2017 4:00 AM

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The United Kingdom's National Health Service has imposed an indefinite ban on non-urgent surgery for smokers and the obese. Smokers will have to give up smoking for at least eight weeks before their will be scheduled for surgery, and the obese will have to lose weight.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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