Letter: How to smoke your way to an early grave

Sir: My wife and I have smoked for the past 57 years and paid in excess of pounds 20,000 in excise tax more than a non-smoker. We will draw five years' less state benefit, plus additions, as we are assured we will die that much sooner.

Yours sincerely,

W. R. SMITH

Amesbury, Wiltshire