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Come on baby light my fire Non-adherence to treatment is a common cause of tension between patients and their clinical care teams and cystic fibrosis (with patients commonly spending around 2 hours per day on treatment) is a good example of this. Gravier et al (see page 486) investigate, in a systematic review and meta-analysis, the effects of exercise training in non-small cell lung cancer as part of ‘prehabilitation’ prior to lung resection. In this issue of Thorax (see page 477) Thomsen and colleagues analysed data from a cohort of motor vehicle workers and found, not without controversy as described in the corresponding editorial (see page 426), that risk of mesothelioma was not increased in motor mechanics, in contrast with lung cancer and asbestosis both of which were increased in mechanics and lead to increased mortality.