Letters To The Editor

Your article asserts that a generation of Europeans use drugs more
pervasively than their predecessors. Not true. Rather, a new
generation has taken up, in relative moderation, softer and socially
responsible drugs such as marijuana and cocaine while eschewing the
addictive hard drugs, such as alcohol and nicotine used by their
parents, which kill hundreds of thousands of nonusers each year.

M. Carling,
Paris, France