Award for campaigner who just couldn't quit

HONG KONG: Judith Mackay is used to be being called names. This time she is at a gala dinner in New York to be labelled a hero and pioneer and one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine.

In the long list of words used to describe her over the years, not all have been so complimentary.

A US smokers' rights group once described Mackay as "psychotic human garbage, a gibbering satan, an insane psychotic just like Hitler, using fatuous, smarmy drivel and distortions, and diatribes full of putrid corruption, lies, conspiracy and total censorship."