Smoking
Sir, — In your paper on June 6, there are four long columns devoted to a recent report by the Royal College of Physicians condemning the smoking habit. In all this verbiage is one small sentence of great significance: “There has been no concerted effort (in Britain) to discourage children from starting to smoke, and little has been done to establish clinics to help the ‘addicted’ quit.” Only if our children at home and in schools are shown the long-term dangers of smoking, and, by precept and example, are encouraged to seek a more positive way of establishing their “adulthood” will the habit ever decline. Parents and educationalists will do well to ponder this in New Zealand.—Yours, etc., G. L. NANSON. June 7, 1977.
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