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Time to quit cigarettes?
• ESME Jenkins (pictured) must have a remarkable constitution to have survived to her 100th birthday in spite of smoking up to 60 cigarettes a day since the age of 15.
I wonder, however, what effect all this smoking has had on people unfortunate enough to have had to live or work with her during the past 85 years. Even if none of them had their health affected by passive smoking (which seems extremely unlikely) it must have been a very unpleasant experience (and the fact that she doesn’t inhale would make no difference at all to this).
I would state, as I always maintain, that the “freedom” to smoke ends where other people’s right to breathe clean air – and not to risk their health – begins.
MARGARET KING
Belsize Grove, NW3
Smoking ban ‘rubbish’
• SHOCK, horror! How can this be? The smoking ban is rubbish” says centenarian Esme Jenkins (Smoke 60 a day but don’t inhale, January 22). Well, of course, it is.
As to “passive smoking” being in a small room with 50 people chainsmoking for three days would amount to smoking around two cigarettes a year, said the Swedish toxicologist Professor Robert Nilsson, and there has not been a single death anywhere in the world attributed to second-hand smoke.
EILEEN EARNSHAW
Oriel Place, NW3
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