Soft soap on smoking
Like thousands of other smokers, I now have to stand out in the wind and rain to have a cigarette as we are no longer allowed to smoke in pubs or cafes.
The government already has a helpline to help people stop smoking. Now it is planning to make shops put cigarettes under the counter and out of sight, to help prevent our young people taking up the habit.
I can understand all this and I am in full agreement with it, if it prevents people smoking and as a result saves them from dying of cancer.
What I can't understand is how the government allows young people to be shown smoking in TV soaps. Surely the government should not allow this to happen. Storylines in soaps have been used in the past to put over a political message.
JOHN CONNOR
David Henderson Court
Dunfermline, Fife
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