http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/woman-died-after-being-given-smokers-lungs-2000852.html

 

Woman dies after being given lungs of a smoker.

 

"Transplant tsar"? Ugh.

Mr Rudge, who said he did not know the "full details" of the case, and was speaking more generally, insisted that it mattered "far more" if lungs were working properly than if they were from a smoker.

 

"Lungs from a smoker can be working perfectly normally and be perfectly suitable for transplantation lungs from a non-smoker can not be working and not be suitable for transplantation," he told BBC Breakfast.

 

"It is nothing to do with the history of the donor, it is whether the organ is working or not, whether it is going to produce a successful transplant or not, and, in this particular case, smoking isn't the issue."

I'd like this supposed "Mr. Rudge" to get his ass pounded because of what he said.