Smoking
Sir, —It is inane for some City Councillors to ridicule efforts to reduce tobacco smoking and we now know that many of them are so hooked on the drug that they cannot give it up for an hour or so, even to give an example to the youth of the
city. Yet we know too that some councillors render yeoman sendee to child welfare, advise the youth against cannabis and generally portray the good citizen. Despite the warnings of Dr D. R. Hay it seems that as far as some of our leading citizens are concerned it is easier to preach than practice. The ordinary public are entitled to assume that the effort the W.H.O. (and our own Health Department) is making to combat the smoking habit, is considered as a joke by the majority of our councillors. —Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. December 18, 1973.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33413, 20 December 1973, Page 14
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