Smoking and example
Sir, —Dr D. Hay’s remarks about the advisability of important personages (who are “hooked” on tobacco) not smoking before the general public are fully justified. The matter goes far deeper, and Professor W. H. Holland, of the Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine Department of St Thomas’s Hospital, has already recognised this fact. He emphasises that the exemplary role of parents, teachers, and pop stars in not appearing to be smokers is very important. Recently a group of young people were protesting about city traffic fumes; in contradiction, their spokesman was sucking at a cigarette while making a pub-
ir lie statement about air pollu- § tion. Unfortunately, everye one seems concerned about > freedom for people who pole lute unnecessarily, but few n are concerned about the >• rights of sensitive breathers. —Yours, etc., x PATRICK NEARY, d November 21, 1971. e
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 16
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