The Mediterranean region is the most vulnerable in Europe to climate change because of its sensitivity to drought and rising temperatures, a study has found. Bar staff do have a choice where they work, and many do actually smoke themselves.. Smoking in pubs: a sensible compromise or a failure to protect? Sir: In your excellent leader on the smoking ban (27 October) you rightly say that many people find second-hand smoke unpleasant. I smoke socially and admit I don't like going home smelling of smoke, but rather that than be robbed of the choice of having a cigarette with my drink if I fancy one. Since then I have become convinced that China is the next huge growth area for us billionaires. I have already married a Chinese wife and now intend to apply for Chinese nationality. Can you advise me how this is most easily done?Dr Moneybags writes: Well, Mr Murdoch...That is all we have space for today More of Dr Moneybags's postbag some other time, I hope More from Miles Kington.

I am just showing off, that is all.Dr Moneybags writes: Good for you. Next, please!Dear Dr Moneybags,Once upon a time, in order to make myself an American millionaire, I acquired American nationality. And the next.Dear Dr Moneybags,I have spent most of my considerable fortune in secretly acquiring the rights to all the horoscopes in all the papers in all the English-speaking world. This is in order to gain my revenge on the woman who once spurned my offer of marriage. I happen to know that not only is she a Taurus, but she devoutly believes all that her horoscope ever says, so it is my intention, starting next month, to make life miserable for all Tauruses everywhere in the world by predicting doom, disaster and disease I don't care about the others. I just want to make life unbearable for her.By the way, I am not Rupert Murdoch.Dr Moneybags writes: And do you have a problem?Dear Dr Moneybags,No. So which club shall I buy? Is there a Welsh or Irish club ripe for the picking?Dr Moneybags writes: Don't be stupid! You say you want to have a bit of fun? My tip is to buy Manchester City and turn it into a superteam.

That way, you will give all Manchester United fans a heart attack, and bring intense pleasure to everyone who hates Manchester United, which is most of the rest of the world. (I am not Rupert Murdoch, incidentally ...) Before that happens, however, I wish to have a bit of fun by purchasing a British football club and turning it into an overnight success story, as Abramovich has with Chelsea, and that Old Etonian has with Heart of Midlothian ...Dr Moneybags writes: May I interrupt you there? I think you will find that Vladimir Romanov is actually an old Estonian Carry on ...Dear Dr Moneybags,Yes, thank you. After all, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose are all deadly rivals, but their tins of tomatoes are all indistinguishable.Dear Dr Moneybags,What is a tin of tomatoes?Dr Moneybags writes: Get along with you! Next, please.Dear Dr Moneybags,I am an evil crazed genius who has amassed one of the greatest fortunes the world has ever known, and now I wish to plunge the world into turmoil and see mankind come to a ghastly end. My advice is to buy the 'Daily Mail' and instruct the editor to support whichever party you want to win.Dear Dr Moneybags,But I don't know which party I want to win!Dr Moneybags writes: God bless you, sir, it doesn't matter which party wins They are all the same.

So I have decided to set aside 10 or 20 million pounds to give to a political party so that it can win the next election. But I can't make up my mind whether it should be Labour or the Tories Or the Lib Dems, come to that. What do you think?Yours sincerelyPS I am not Rupert MurdochDr Moneybags writes: It is a common fallacy that money wins elections It doesn't What wins elections is the support of the 'Daily Mail'. Who can he turn to? To Dr Moneybags, that's who! The only agony uncle in the world who deals exclusively with the problems of the super-rich! And he is here again today, so let us for a moment listen in awe to the kind of troubles that you and I will never have... Dear Dr Moneybags,Having spent all my life making money, I never had much time for politics, but I am beginning to take an interest in it now. According to Jan Egeland, the UN's under secretary general for humanitarian relief, 2 to 3 million people are at risk, and the world has only a few days in which to prevent many more deaths than the 79,000 thought to have died in the earthquake. More from Joan Smith. There are advice columns for almost everyone, from gardeners to golfers, from heartbreak to household matters But one person misses out on all this The billionaire The unimaginably rich person The Midas made lonely by his riches.

Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, said much the same this week when he told a donors' conference in Geneva that "the scale of this tragedy almost defies our darkest imagination". He also pointed out, as relief agencies have done, that another horror is about to strike the survivors of the earthquake in the form of bitter winter weather. He spoke of awesome destruction, of mountains disappearing overnight, and human suffering on a scale he had never previously seen. A veteran of 20 years of reporting wars and natural catastrophes, my friend says that this disaster is worse even in its effects than the Boxing Day tsunami, which he witnessed at the beginning of the year.