28 NOVEMBER 1970, Page 18

Where there's smoke

Sir: Mr George Nichol! (Letters, 14 November) asks how large is the proportion of people demand- ing a restriction on smoking. The answer is the 57 per cent of our population who are non- smokers, but whose freedom to breathe clean air is daily denied them because in buses, offices, cafés, cinemas, hotels, hospitals, etc etc they have foisted on them other people's foul fumes.

In the name of freedom, they demand to be free from this in- sufferable tyranny.

Hubert V. Little Secretary, National Society of Non-smokers, 125 West Dumpton Lane, Ramsgate