SIR - Smokers are a canny lot. It started off innocently enough, a quick fag on the doorstep of the pub then back to their pint, but now they have started to demand comfortable seats, heaters, wind breaks and something to keep the rain off.

I bet in no time at all toilet facilities will appear and catering equipment.

They will start calling their little smokers' havens names like the Nick O'Teen Arms' or The Old Cough & Spit Inn'. I'm not daft, I can see it coming.

But, although we non-smokers are thankful the smoke has gone, we sure do miss the smokers. Perhaps in time we will try to join them in their little havens and start demanding non-smoking tables. You never know.

Beryl Robinson, West End, Queensbury