Computer prescribed Viagra as anti-smoking cure

A SO-CALLED computer "glitch" meant that Scots who wanted to give up fags were prescribed the "wrong drug" by a machine.

According to the Times of London, 900 quacks at 300 practices in Bonny Scotland got an email from administrators warning of the mistake. The would-be non smokers got supplies of exciting Viagra rather than dull drug Zyban.

Computers are notorious for having little sense of humour, apart from HAL in 2001, of course, who wrongly believed that humans were less intelligent than lines on printed circuit boards.

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