M Hanson claims the consuming of beer and fags in the pub as a civil liberty (Letters, November 24)
After "hundreds of years", he asks, "what's new?" A clearer idea of civil liberties, for a start.
It is suggested that if you don't like smoking, you don't go to public houses. Hogwash! All non-smokers (including bar staff) have a far more emphatic right to breathe clean air.
Dealing with the "filth" on the streets will be a great deal easier than dealing with that filth which friends of mine and others have ingested through smoking.
-Tony Graham, Brighton
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