I AGREE with you, John Knowles (LET, January 8), that no-one has the right to blow smoke over you or anyone else but equally no-one has the right to force me to suffer the pungent and overpowering perfumes that some women wear, the foul aftershaves used by men and in some cases the obnoxious BO, nor drunks being sick at the next table.

I also agree with you, Dianne Dixon, that you should not have to go home reeking of tobacco smoke. You object to having to step outside the bus shelter so as not to breathe the smoke from a smoker but you do not object to breathing in the killing fumes from all the buses and cars that crawl past. Strange philosophy!

I live right across the road from a high school and twice a day during school terms the air is thick with foul vehicle exhaust fumes that pervade everything in my flat but I accept it as part of the rich tapestry of life and hope for a strong wind to blow it all away.

I assume that both of you use some form of vehicular transport to go about your daily business and in doing so you are both party to deadly vehicle exhaust fume free air in the streets? We all have rights and sometimes they clash so whose rights are more important John Knowles and Dianne Dixon, yours or a child's?

It is the hypocrisy of the anti-smoking campaign that sticks in my craw.

JIM BUCKLEY, Holden Fold, Darwen.