I say "ultimate end" because it simply follows if the state and those who represent it feel they are the final arbiters of your health care and how and under what conditions it will be provided, the following comes at no surprise at all:A man with a broken ankle is facing a lifetime of pain because a Health Service hospital has refused to treat him unless he gives up smoking.John Nuttall, 57, needs surgery to set the ankle which he broke in three places two years ago because it did not mend...