IN response to your question should smoking bans be enforced? (LET, April 15). Blackburn, and indeed every other large shopping precinct in Lancashire, should get their priorities right.
They should start by clearing the streets, pubs and shopping centres of yobs, thieves, vandals and hooligans, not to mention the gangs of intimidating youths that frequent Blackburn town centre every weekend.
Only then may our shopping precincts be shopping friendly places. Not because a group of stall holders smoke or a handful of cafes still allow smoking.
When this great task of clearing our streets and precincts has been accomplished by showing a zero tolerance by police, magistrates and council do-gooders then they may target the smokers.
L ASHCROFT (Mrs), Blackburn Road, Great Harwood.
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