SIR – In the latest cancer-scare, we’re now told that any consumption of alcohol will give us all cancer.

Add this to tobacco, red meat, sunlight, coffee and all the other hysterical outputs from over-funded time-wasters.

What they never say is that abstaining from all those things doesn’t stop you dying – we all die, it’s only a matter of timescale.

There’s no doubt that some behaviours, in some people, may result in marginally earlier death, but not in all cases.

Many who smoke tobacco do not die from cancer; many who sunbathe do not die of cancer, etc.

It’s not a direct one-to-one relationship, and medical science does not yet understand why some live and some die sooner.

Meanwhile, we all have a life to live, enjoying what we can. And then we will all die sometime. I will die, you will die, whether we accept all that scare nonsense or not. That’s life.

As my wise old father used to advise: “If you don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t go with dodgy women, you won’t live any longer – it just feels like it”.

He made it to 85, with at least two out of the three!

Graham Hoyle, Kirkbourne Grove, Baildon