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There’s no smoking without fire
• YOU report that the fire in Ampthill Square “is believed to have been caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette”( May 7).
Since, as you also inform us, “the Town Hall was awaiting the report into the fire” we don’t know for sure that this was the cause but the fact that it might have been proves how dangerous cigarettes are even if the issue of passive smoking is discounted.
We must be thankful that, in the current incident, no one was killed; but it must still have been very frightening for all involved.
In any case this seems to have been just a matter of luck and there is no guarantee that a similar incident might not cause any number of deaths. My feeling is that this incident, and its possible outcome, is a very potent argument against the “right” to smoke; how can this right possibly supersede the right to live without the risk of being killed by smoke inhalation or – even worse – being burnt to death?
Margaret King
Belsize Grove, NW3
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