So Nigel Farage is a smoker and a drinker.

What has that got to do with anything?

So is most of the population of this country.

The House of Commons has a bar.

Are we to believe MPs don't use it? Think about it, whoever you are.

Winston Churchill was a smoker and a drinker. What a great prime minister he was at the time of this country's greatest need.

COLIN HAWKEN, Thornhill, Southampton.