[5] In the mid-1990s, Öste moved to TV3 where he hosted Dagar som skakade Sverige [sv] together with Hasse Aro.
[4] On 20 June 1983, Öste's daughters Gigi and Marie, nine months pregnant, were out walking in Tyresö when they were mowed down by a drunk driver.
Marie lost little Milja, Gigi was forced to amputate her right leg and suffered severe brain damage for life.
They also started the KRAM association, (Kampen mot rattfylleriet angår mig, "The fight against drunk driving concerns me").
It was largely thanks to Öste's determined fight that the limit for drunk driving in Sweden was lowered to 0.2 per mille (promille).
The organization later attracted controversy, not least after Aftonbladet revealed that the tobacco company Philip Morris gave Smokepeace SEK 1.2 million for an advertising campaign.
His final years, Öste spent at Saint Erik's nursing home, which has group housing for people with dementia.