Ivan Noble has died.

I mentioned his tumour diaries in an earlier post, but he died yesterday in a hospice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4193093.stm

His diary columns are being published in a book.

"If two or three people stop smoking as a result of anything I have ever written then the one of them who would have got cancer will live and all my scribblings will have been worthwhile."
The closing words of his final column