[Vicky.]

Also not all smokers get cancer or whatever.

'The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust said: "It is very rare for patients to specify that they do not wish to be considered for clinically healthy lungs from smokers. '

implies that the lungs were tested and didnt have a problem at the time of the transplant. The hospital couldnt really have known that 2 years down the line there would be a problem if the lungs were healthy at the time.

I really doubt she would have refused the lungs just on the fact that the donor was a smoker, if she was told that they were healthy (at that time)