WE know that smoking leads to heart and lung disease and that it has proven links with cancer. But that does not alter the fact that people who are hopelessly addicted are paying a grossly unfair levy for something they can not help.
I have been smoking between 20 and 40 a day for the last 27 years, and I am a picture of health!
ADRIAN ELLIS,
Radcliffe Road,
Bury.
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