RICHARD Corbett, Labour MEP for Yorkshire & the Humber, is proud of the collective opposition of the EU against tobacco advertising (Letters, August 8).

This is a position I wholly support.

However, what does he think about the Common Agricultural Policy subsidising European tobacco growers by up to three billion euros a year?

EU double standards, perhaps?

Simon Prout,

Towers Road, Harrow, London.

Updated: 10:54 Thursday, August 11, 2005