COMPARE ACTION AGAINST TOBACCO

WE MUST concur with Vicki Salkin (Letters, 6 November) regarding
so-called "safe injecting places" (what a deceitful term - as if there
is any such thing!).

Isn't it ironic that we are heading one direction with cigarette
smoking, with statistics even showing a resulting decline, yet we are
heading the complete opposite direction with what are considered
harder and more dangerous substances. And the people pushing this are
supposed to be "clever"?! Devoid of logic perhaps!

Vicki Salkin has it in one when she says: "We need to be giving
people, especially young people, the 'no' message, instead of 'do it,
but safely'. To say no to drugs is the safest . . ."

After all, that is what we are doing with tobacco isn't
it?

J. & A. COLEMAN
Rivett

Checked-by: Patrick Henry