'Smoking kills' and is to be banned in public buildings. But don't worry about the black, toxic, carcinogenic cloud passing over the south-east from the oil blaze in Hemel Hempstead, it's safe!

Is this the same sort of 'safe', that when the oilfields were burning in the first Gulf war, we were told there would be an environmental disaster to human, animal and plant life for years to come.

Jose O'Ware
Great Cambridge Road
Enfield.