I felt I had to respond to Angie Beaton's letter "Smoking Gang" (Letters, November 19) in which she needlessly put the boot into smokers.

Having pushed smokers outside she now obviously wants them out of sight when she goes to a pub or restaurant.

This is verging on fascism. The health debate over smoking indoors has been won and Angie Beaton and others who share her view can rightly be protected from the effects of smoking.

But what argument is she now using to berate alfresco smokers? That her clothes might smell a bit? In Brighton there are far worse smells to make her clothes stink than the odd whiff of tobacco. Smokers have been kicked outdoors. Why not stop kicking them?

  • John Bennett,
    Worcester Villas, Hove