NO SMOKE: I must take issue with Laura-Jane Filotrani's views on smoking (Chance At Treatment Should Go Up In Smoke, April 26). Years ago, troops were given cigarettes to improve their breathing and cheap cigarettes were available. If one was wise enough to refuse an offered cigarette, one was told to be a man. I do not condone smoking in young people but you start smoking the addiction soon takes hold. As for the tax we pay, the NHS would be in a sorry state without it, so does the Government really want us to give up?

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KEEP WORD: I have always liked Tony Blair but to be honest it does not seem to matter who you vote for, we are all promised this and that at elections, and when it comes to it we never get what we are promised. I know we should all vote but what are we voting for? When elections come along I am uncertain who to vote for. Why can't we have a Government which keeps its word which we can trust to get us out of the mess this country is in.

Alan Peacock
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