16 JULY 1954, Page 14

SIR,—About smoking and health—or disease. How is it that I

(as a vile corpus) have smoked for 60;odd years, in training for OUAC and playing cricket for England, and football, and have as yet at 82 suffered no detectable ill effects ? I bow to scientists but wonder how much they know.

Cats may have had their goose Cooked by tobacco juice Still why deny its use Thoughtfully taken We're not as tabbies are— Jones, take a fresh cigar, Smith the tobacco jar.

Here's to the Bacon. C. B. TRY

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