Straight to the POINT

■ HASN’T Prince Charles learned anything from his mother?

DAVID KAYE, Haywards Heath, W. Sussex.

■ THOSE rejoicing at the latest idea from Nanny to ban fags by 2030 should be careful what they wish for. Booze next, then caffeine.

KEITH HOBBS, Southsea, Hants.

■ I’M GLAD the age of buying tobacco products will increase by only one year at a time. I can keep smoking my pipe until I’m 150.

ALAN STACKMAN, Calne, Wilts.

■ HOW will local authorities enforce no smoking in council houses? Will they open letterboxes and have a good sniff?

ERIC WATERS, Lancing, W. Sussex.

■ IN FILMS and on TV, it will soon be deemed acceptable to show scenes of a sexual nature, but not a post-coital cigarette.

SALLY BROWN, Basingstoke, Hants.

■ THE country’s plight is the result of circumstance not governance. Can there be anyone sane who desires the poisoned chalice?

CHARLES JONES, Chester.

■ £100 to fill up? In 1965, filling my Morris Cowley cost £3.50. My salary was £7 a week.

W. BRATLEY, Westow, N. Yorks.

■ I’M LUCKY to be bald (Letters). Other people have to wash and go, but I can just go.

T. BAILEY, Nottingham.

■ AFTER the chaos at Birmingham Airport (Letters), I am pleased to report my luggage was eventually delivered — nine days later.

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