To suggest the minute amount of cigarette smoke that may drift into the air from very few smokers is being blamed for affecting the health of others is outrageous.

This issue has become just another personal attack on smokers’ rights, that’s of course if they have any rights left at all.

This possible action is personal as we really don’t see Wagga’s community in rank and file demanding smokers be banned from the CBD but it’s more about a handful of Wagga’s councillors who just don’t like smokers.

I’m damned if this is fair justice.

There is no way anyone will convince me that the tiny amount of cigarette smoke at most times hardly noticeable is a health hazard in the Wagga CBD when cars, trucks constantly clutter the main street spewing exhaust smoke into the air which is far more than any cigarette smoke that may linger, not to mention the amount of polluted exhaust that constantly condenses the underground market place car park where there is no escape.

I agree to no smoking “indoors” however smokers vs cars and trucks in main street smokers CBD areas: smokers win hands down.

Just for the record, smokers pay exorbitantly high taxes for their cigarettes, in fact the federal government raises more revenue from cigarettes than what was raised from the carbon tax in this country.

That huge contribution from smokers goes a long way in some way of making Australia a better place for us all, including the Wagga community. So leave them alone!

Ronny Pullen, Wagga

It seems Labor is a little precious about Justice Heydon, seemingly trying to cook-up a three-decade-long conspiracy theory.

“I overlooked the connection between the person or persons organising the event and the Liberal Party which had been stated in an email … (and my agreement to speak was) conditional on the work of the (Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption) being completed before that time". Heydon goofed - don't we all?

Labor dredged up a 30-year-old connection between then-selector Heydon and now-PM Abbott – Heydon's serving on the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee that awarded the honour to Abbott ... talk about a furphy!

It's reasonable to ask honourable and respectful questions about Heydon's speech-making at a Liberal Party fund-raiser while still serving on a Liberal Government's Royal Commission ... but ... trying to create a juicy conspiracy theory is way overboard.

Judy Bamberger

Please allow me space to comment upon Bob Sherman’s excellent contribution to Web Words (The Daily Advertiser, August 18, 2015).

Bob is saying almost word-for-word what I’ve been carrying on about for months now.

Western “Democratic” nations do not have a God-given right to tell other nations or communities how they should behave and certainly not use military might to impose their will upon others.

Not only do the bombings and shootings rarely (if ever) result in reducing the threats of terrorists but they inevitably end up killing hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians, usually women and children.

We are not superior or wiser than others who happen to have a different skin colour, dress differently, speak other languages or worship in a different way than we do and it is well and truly time we appreciated this.

Australia should not meekly follow the wished of the US nor any other country but ought to make it’s own judgement on whether military intervention on other peoples affairs is justified and I am quite sure that in almost every case it is not.

Peter Matthews, Wagga