Smokers’ shower

SIR – I have never tried to read a book in a shower, but I can tell Jan Bardey (Letters, January 13) that in my cricket club we had two showers, one of which had a unique shower head. It had an unusual spray pattern through its functioning holes, which made it possible to finish your after-match cigarette while taking a shower.

Forty years on, I don’t expect this would be a desirable feature, but at the time it was seen as a relaxing benefit. John Bristow

Otterbourne, Hampshire