WE are non-smokers and I do not like going out because of the effects of the smoke. Your hair, clothes even underwear smells when you return home.

The smoke affects your chest the day after, even makes your eyes sore and dries out your skin. You have to dodge the cigarettes when people have had a drink so you will not get burnt.

When in a bus queue if someone at the front lights a cigarette I have to go and stand outside the shelter so I am not inhaling all the smoke. I prefer to get wet standing outside in the fresh air.

The worse thing is having a meal when someone behind you lights up. I have thought of taking a battery fan and blowing all the smoke back.

It would be lovely to go out to pubs and restaurants in a smoke-free environment. I do not want lung cancer. Let the people who smoke do it in their own homes and kill themselves, not us as well.

Yes -- ban it.

DIANNE DIXON, Lower Fold, Great Harwood.