Julie, it's me that comes from Walsall! Harvey, being mistaken for a Walsall lad must be nearly as awful, if much rarer, as being me being called a Brummie! (Although I married a Birmingham girl, so that makes me a Brummie by marriage.)

It's horrifying nw to think back to those smoke-filled rooms of the sixties and seventies; I was a heavy smoker then, so I must have been largely responsible. I don't suffer from asthma, although my daughter does; but I often find my throat start to tighten when people are smoking now.

Attitudes have changed gtreatly in the last few years, and I'm sure they will continue to do so until even most smokers consider smoking to be anti-social. If we can wait that long ...

Steve