Smokers suffer the jeers of the self-righteous

ROSSA Ó SNODAIGH (Irish Examiner letters, July 19) asserts that smokers are addicts and therefore should have ‘no choice’ regarding the scientifically unsound smoking ban.

This is just the sort of intolerance and bias that we smokers have been suffering since the ban’s introduction.

If you add the jeers of non-smokers, the smug satisfaction of the self-righteous, the one-sided reporting on the medical knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke and a rigid, crusading minister you may begin to understand the deep-seated frustration of smokers.