Letters: Cigarettes should be sold from police stations

Cigarettes are often stolen in aggravated robberies. Photo/file

The sale of cigarettes must be controlled, the small stores must be protected and the public must be discouraged from smoking.

But I don't think to allow supermarkets or pharmacies to sell tobacco is the answer. The best deterrent to both robberies and discouraging smoking is to restrict the sale of all tobacco to police stations.

JIM ADAMS
Rotorua

Climate change inevitable

With President Trump exiting the Paris climate accord talks perhaps it is time to accept the fact that climate change is not bad but inevitable.

For millions of years global warming has maintained a liveable climate on Earth. The atmospheric temperature, though constantly changing, has never exceeded a bearable level.

This is mainly due to the life-sustaining water-cycle which acts as a thermostat. The stages of evaporation and condensation have a cooling effect which under unusual conditions created the ice ages.

As a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapour there is greater cloud cover and rainfall, significant features of natural temperature control.

Human activity may have added warming gases to the air but as in the past, nature will cope with any temperature change.

HUGH WILSON
Rotorua