I am writing concerning Glyn Limmer’s recent letter about smoking.

I have never smoked and am anti-smoking. I do have a life – which is more than you can say for those who have died of smoking-related diseases.

Also smokers don’t just die, they suffer dreadfully. I have observed this as a nurse caring for them and seeing my father suffer, before and after having a leg amputated and finally dying of throat cancer, through smoking.

I cannot imagine why anyone should think it is morally or ethically right to fund a health service on the back of suffering and death.

PAT ROSS

Bowness Avenue

Headington