Madam, - Your edition of August 10th reports on a survey about the prevalence of smoking among young children in the EU.
About a half-hour before I bought the paper, I was walking into Dublin Airport to meet someone. As I did, I saw a family standing outside (two adults, three children), clearly preparing to go on holiday. The man was lighting a cigarette and then lit a cigarette being held by the woman.
To my astonishment, he then lit a cigarette for one of the children, a boy who could not have been more than 14 years of age.
Child abuse takes many forms. - Yours, etc,
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T. GERARD BENNETT, Templeroan Park, Knocklyon, Dublin 16.