Court washed its hands of smoking issue

WHILE I welcome the recent reported fall in cigarette consumption in Ireland, I still maintain that smokers only harm themselves.

Dave Johnson from Texas (Irish Examiner letters, Sept 9) states that the judge who originally dismissed the US Environmental Protection Association (EPA) claim “that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a carcinogen” lived in North Carolina which, incredibly, is a tobacco-growing state.

This apparently is sufficient evidence for Mr Johnson to conclude that this judge must himself be corrupt.