<t>I am not sure that the analogy between a burning building and a cigarette is a particularly apposite one. The point is that the claims made in respect of passive smoking are not borne out by actual experience and I don't believe that legislation based upon a false or distorted premise leads to go...

<t>I think not. Although dramatic improvements in medicine had been made - chiefly thanks to the necessities of the war - the great thing about our generation was how little we used those facilities. I think the human body is a great deal more robust then you give it credit for being. Entering a bur...

<t>I should have thought that using the healthy state of the immediate post-war generation as a basis for an argument was about as factual as you can get. No-one is suggesting that smoking is good for you but I am suggesting that its evels have been overstated for socio-political reasons. Simply bec...

<t>I am afraid it is not 'proven' that second-hand smoke has especially harmful effects. It has simply been vociferously assumed by the anti-smoking lobby who, I am afraid, will resort to any degree of calumny to achieve their ends. <br/> <br/> Had the effects of passive smoking been anything like a...

<t>I cannot agree that multiculturalism has not been forced upon us. The media makes a great deal of it without ever allowing the opposing argument to be aired. No-one objects to small, controlled degrees of immigrations such as those we have had for hundreds of years in the past. The present situat...

<t>'If there are children in the home or car who are forced to inhale second hand smoke, then I would have an issue with it.'<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Actually, 99.99% of those of us over 50 were raised in an environment where smoking was universal. And we not only survived but were healthy. Anyone wh...

I am reminded that Adolph Hitler - not always the most accomodating of souls - was an enthusiastic anti-smoker yet he tolerated the habit in others. Is it not curious to find that Scotland is a less tolerant land than Nazi Germany? Clearly John Knox is alive and well..............

<t>I couldn't agree more with the sentiments expressed by 'Hopki'. But I would go further. In the 50 years that immigrants have been flooding into this country, not once has the indigenous population been asked for its views. Multiculturalism has been forced upon us whether we like it or not. Of all...

<t>It will certainly be life-altering for him. He was the co-pilot of an aircraft that failed to do what it was supposed to do.<br/> <br/> The question of the wrong runway is a red herring - at worst it would have pointed the aircraft in the wrong direction; it certainly would not have made it crash...