Bill Harvey: We’re cookin’ tonight

This week we publish the feedback from our recent interactive exercise looking at how best we manage patients who smoke.
In a break from our usual policy, I have decided to show a greater number of responses from your discussions as, being such a discursive topic, I felt it might be of interest to show the range of responses we received.

Firstly, you will see that almost all respondents now believe that it is very much the business of the eye care practitioner to ask about smoking habits and be in a position to offer advice as appropriate. This is a major change from just a few years ago when a majority felt that such a lifestyle choice was none of our business.