Letter: Battle of smoke

Tuesday 13 October 1998 23:02 BST

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Sir: Jean-Marc Evans (letter, 10 October) complains that not paying one's fare on a bus incurs only a pounds 10 fine, whereas smoking is penalised with a pounds 1,000 fine. He ignores the fact that cigarette smoke, unlike fare- dodging, can be fatal to other people as well as the smoker.

MAURICE HILL

Alicante, Spain

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