Smoked out

I OBJECT to the British Lung Foundation using children as an emotional cover for its arguments about cigarette smoke in cars (“Drivers, stub it out to help the children”, 7 September).

Its claim that a single cigarette smoked in a car creates a greater concentration of second-hand smoke than a whole evening’s smoking in a pub is on a par with the statement to a recent BMA meeting, that it is less dangerous to let exhaust fumes into the car interior, and that opening a window has no effect.

Smoking is a stupid habit, but in my experience the majority of drivers do not smoke while driving and I see none doing so with children aboard.

Robert Dow

Ormiston Road

Tranent

I HAVE read some daft contributions to the debate on smoking in public places, but complaining about smoke at a fireworks display as Ken Gow does (Letters, 8 September) just about takes the biscuit.

Graham M McLeod

Muirs

Kinross