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SURELY David Hall (Your Views, 4/9) must be kidding if he thinks the excise paid by smokers even comes close to covering the medical costs invoked.

On top of that is the lost productivity with increased time off work and shortened working lives.

IAIN FEATHER

EVERY time there is a gun massacre in the US, we hear how Australia’s former PM John Howard created the Port Arthur gun laws.

What is overlooked is the US fought a civil war which left that country divided and heavily armed.

Over time these weapons were given legitimacy and organisations such as the National Rifle Association gained the power base to have laws created to allow for increasingly dangerous weapons.

Add to that there are still many in the US who are fighting a civil war that continues to fester.

It wouldn’t have made any difference who the PM was when the Port Arthur massacre occurred in April 1996 because it just happened at the right time.

D.J. FRASER, CURRUMBIN

I LIVE in a seniors village that used to provide a recycling service for paper/cardboard/glass/plastic.

We can still recycle paper/cardboard but the containers for the glass and plastic were removed some time ago and never replaced.

We have been instructed to put all our plastic and glass containers in with the usual household rubbish for disposal.

Many of the elderly residents here have no choice but to do this as they are unable to dispose of their plastic/glass elsewhere.

The public has been encouraged for years to recycle as much as possible yet our village management is saying the opposite.

I feel this is a step back in time and should not be tolerated.

GB, GOLD COAST

WHAT an appalling waste of money the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has been, always searching in the wrong area.

A search of the pilot’s personal simulator showed he had tested a course that diverted at the point it dropped off the radar, to a new course headed for, and ending, in the vicinity of the Indian Ocean islands of Diego Garcia.

Inhabitants of one of the islands that make up this group reported a Malaysian plane flying low overhead that following morning in March 2014 near the time its fuel would have run out.

The natives were able to describe the plane and markings perfectly, even though they had never seen a Malaysian aircraft before.

Why was this critical intel completely ignored by search authorities? A serious please explain is needed here.

DR GRANT SAYER, GOLD COAST

IN THE so-called battle of the big three supermarkets, can somebody please explain why the Southport Park Woolies bottleshop sells a litre of Gordons Dry Gin at $60 but a kilometre away at Liquor Market, the same item is priced at $47.

Seems someone has their knickers in a twist to the tune of $13.

FRANK TEWKESBURY