In yet another blow to Big Tobacco , Mr Clinton announced in his message that the Justice Department was planning to sue the tobacco companies for smoking-related costs borne by federal health-care programmes.
"He's a little bit slower than he was" but is working on a ranch, attending online classes from home and planning to take his message of survival to high schools around the state, Bobby Bothe said.
The Department of Health says it is to issue a "get tough" message to those PCTs who are unnecessarily planning to close community hospitals in the face of local opposition, telling them such closures should not be implemented as "short-term budgetary pressures".