Letters..

Taxing danger

I LIKED reader Tom Black’s anti-smoking letter (Record Readers, September 27).

We live in a country where if you go into a shop to buy a loaf of bread or a steak or any drinks and it says on the product, “This Will Kill You”, the owner would be arrested and the product binned.

This death warning is on cigarettes so why are they allowed to be sold?

Could it because the Government make a fortune in tax on cigarettes? Alan Taylor, Livingston

Return to spender

IN RESPONSE to “Name supplied, Cumbernauld” in Record Readers, September 27, I can defend my correspondence of September 20.

In a previous letter, I stated the fact that I would be willing to pay towards the free bus pass, the free prescriptions and an increase in the council tax if the SNP Government were brave enough to introduce the same, as long as the money raised was spent on health and education and not squandered willy-nilly.

I am sure I am not the only one who would be happy to do the same as long as it benefited the aforementioned areas. Hamish Leishman, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire

Family pride

MY husband, daughter and her husband are doing the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow on Sunday. They are of different abilities but at 62, my husband is looking forward to it least.

I will be at the finish line waiting to welcome him home whatever the time. I am so proud of him. Good luck to everyone who is running. Joyce Stewart, Cumbernauld