Manly knee-slaps rock the polite simmer of exchange in the living-room....“I nailed that one coming around a corner!”

SEAN FLEMING’S letter about water fluoridation communicated some inaccuracies and made some scientifically unfounded connections between water fluoridation and the incidence of a range of diseases (Irish Examiner, April 11).

Lawyers are taking America’s three biggest tobacco companies to court over claims they used words such as ‘‘light’’ and ‘‘low tar’’ to deceive smokers into believing some cigarettes are safer than others.