Letter: Emphasis on smokers story is wrong way round
As a reformed long-term smoker who has given up smoking the weed, together with my other pleasure of partaking of a few pints of real ale a week as a direct result of the ban on smoking in pubs, I was interested to read that smokers are responsible for taking up one in 20 hospital beds.
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Surely the propagandist headline should be that smokers (who contribute millions in additional taxes) only occupy five per cent of hospital beds.
Perhaps it's the other 95 per cent of patients who should be pilloried for having the gall to require inpatient treatment from the underfunded and rapidly failing NHS.
Teddy Alexandra,
Shifnal
