Madam, - Dr Jenny Lynch rightly points out (October 10th) that our "porches, patios [ and] pavements" are littered with cigarette butts.
If the "polluter pays" principle means anything, it is well past time that the Minister for the Environment - a Green! - placed an environmental tax on every packet of cigarettes to assist local authorities clean up the mess. - Yours, etc,
Dr FENTON HOWELL, ASH Ireland, 43-45 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4.