Letter: Life after ban on tobacco cash

Monday 26 May 1997 23:02 BST

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Sir: Clive Turner of the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association (letter, 24 May) refuses to talk about addiction and talks instead of choice and pleasure. I made a single choice when I was 14 or 15 which has committed me to a daily expenditure at current prices of about pounds 7 and damage to my health and the health of my family. I have frequently made the choice to stop smoking, but I'm not up to it.

JON GRAY

Bath

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