“Almost always it has been assumed that things that correlate with happiness are the causes of happiness, but it could be just the opposite.”
Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on research showing that happiness might lead to success, not the other way around (The Guardian, London, 19 December)
“It was reasonably foreseeable by a reasonably prudent man that, if he smoked, he risked damaging his health.”
A landmark decision by English high court judge Stanley Burnton, who reduced the compensation awarded for a man’s early death on the grounds that smoking, as well as asbestos…
