YOU report on the seminar on young people and smoking (Evening Press, March 22) quoting York MP Hugh Bayley as saying that tobacco is an "addictive, killer drug" claiming 2,300 lives nation-wide every week.
It went to say he is relieved that, at least, we have a Government which is turning the tables on the "merchants of death".
While I would agree wholeheartedly with these sentiments, perhaps he could explain why, if the Government is intent on reducing smoking by restricting advertising and by increased taxation on cigarettes, it is at the same time seeking to retain duty free allowances which will permit smokers to continue to buy cigarettes cheaply abroad and bring them into the country?
It is another case of say one thing and do another by the Government.
R A Starks,
The Green,
York.
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