I WOULD like to address the following questions to Nick Parr through your letters page:

1. Do you know how many places where you eat are air-conditioned?

2. Do you know how many places have non-smoking areas?

3. Do you know in how many places the non-smoking runs straight into the smoking area?

4. Do you know in how many places you have to walk through the smokers to get to the non-smoking area?

I do, Nick, because I am out and about enjoying myself but my sister, who has a chronic lung condition, does not because she cannot be anywhere near smoke and it is hard to find a reasonably priced restaurant with these facilities.

No pubs are non-smoking and local amenities are definitely not.

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