SIR Please print this short story and if it saves one life, I will be happy.

A young man arrives at the gates of heaven. "Give me a light," he says to the angel standing there.

"You can't smoke here," says the angel and the young man replies: "I thought when I came to heaven I would not have people telling me what to do all the time."

The angel says: "When you were on earth you had two choices: to smoke or not to smoke. Against all advice you chose to smoke and died a terrible death with your lungs bursting and gasping for breath.

"Here at the gateway to heaven you again have two choices.

"You can take the hand of the Devil and he will take you to the depths of hell, where you can smoke all day, but at night your lungs will be bursting and gasping for breath and you will be in great pain.

"Death will not come and comfort you but it will go on until the end of time.

"Or, you can stop smoking, enter the gates of heaven, breath in the clean air and live in peace and tranquillity for the rest of time."

Eric Daynes, Craven Avenue, Silsden