Meanwhile, cancer kills

Barry Riley correctly stated that smoking does stink and it is a filthy habit (Peninsula News, Edition 107).

However, I suggest to Mr Riley that he should do a little research instead of believing what is said on the television and by the Anti-Smoking Lobby.

In actual fact, there are hoards of substances that may or may not cause cancer and not one of them can be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

If you wish to split hairs, quite a large amount of lung cancer victims either work or live in city areas where there are lots of vehicles travelling around in bunches, which includes being caught in traffic.

Why is it that very few people complain about the smog, which is more of a danger to us than smoking?

Is it because we all drive or use some other form of transportation?

To prove my point, how many people sit in their car, plug the exhaust, wind the windows up, light a packet of cigarettes to commit suicide?

I have spent over two years studying not just cigarettes, but all types of cancer.

If you did what I have done, you would find that researchers can't prove what causes cancer.

It works the same as a court of law.

The prosecution blames and the defence creates doubt.

While this is happening, cancer is killing more people in four years than smallpox did in over 500 years.

Kevin Duncan, Blackwall