New data shows that five million adults still smoke in the UK, while the government is working towards their ambition to have a Smokefree society by 2030.
Greater than 11 percent of Massachusetts still uses tobacco products. New Bedford and Fall River have some of the highest rates of smokers in the Commonwealth.
Readers commend the RTHK for bucking the gender pay gap, decry the addiction to fossil fuel-run cars, say the future of a Polar Silk Road remains bright, and ask that tobacco deaths be treated as a public crisis on a par with Covid-19.