Effects of smoking
Sir.—Criticism of the North Koreans for jailing people for offences—“some as trivial as refusing to give up smoking”—is the pot calling the kettle black. (“The Press,” July 12). People are jailed in New Zealand for offences as “trivial” as refusing to stop using heroin. Both heroin and nicotine (the latter present in tobacco smoke) are highly addictive narcotics. Nicotine is nearly as addictive as heroin. Nicotine, not heroin, is, however, the major cause of disease and death in New Zealand, and its effects are not confined to smokers themselves but affect those who are obliged to be in their vicinity —at work, in public transport, Post Office queues, retail shops, restaurants, doctors’ waiting rooms, homes, hospitals, the womb, etc. That all Railways Road Services buses are smoking buses is a grave indictment which illustrates the lack of real concern for the people’s health.—Yours, etc., PAUL MALING. July 12, 1979.
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