Amazed by amount of haze

You have had many comments on the poor quality of the air in Hong Kong.

We can be careful crossing the congested roads and we can avoid the polluted waters round Hong Kong, but breathing is the problem.

Friends from New Jersey were in Hong Kong for a week in January when there was fine sunny weather. Back in the US, they sent us an e-mail which included the following: 'I'm sending you copies of some of the better photos. People I've shown them to here are amazed by the amount of haze/pollution in the air - and we're not unexposed to such conditions ourselves.' That is bad enough but, as a generalisation, the pollution you see is not as bad as the pollutants you cannot see. A definition of pollution is 'too much of anything in one place' - it represents the disadvantages arising from too many people, too many cars on the road, too many students in a class etc.

When will the Government do something about the one type of pollution that affects all of us, all of the time? BRADFORD W IMRIE Jordan