Cars also are filthy, stink and kill

Barry Riley (Peninsula News, edition 107) said tobacco is filthy, stinks and kills.

Well, so do motor cars, but I have not seen any rush to ban them.

As for smokers being started by peer pressure and glamour, there is another reason, stress.

It's not for nothing they call cigarettes "nerve sticks".

I assume Mr Riley has never smoked, because there is even pleasure in watching cigarette smoke climbing into the air.

Perhaps he is making the more philosophical point that all pleasures are delusions and therefore we should shun them.

Keith Whitfield, Woy Woy