CONGRATULATIONS on your admirable attempts to save York readers' lives, and to reopen to the non-smokers all the present "no go" areas which gave them pleasure (May 9). Some years ago I wrote this poem:

Smokers

Why build clubs for dancing,

To play bingo, talk and joke,

And restaurants to enjoy eating,

Then fill them up with smoke?

Everyone should have their say,

I know there is this need,

How can you tell the smokers,

They are a dying breed?

Gordon Ross,

Huntington Road,

York.

Updated: 10:22 Friday, May 13, 2005