* While many think smoking cigarettes is a dirty, unhealthy habit, it still is legal (“Britney Kid’s Smoke Bomb,” July 22).
If the cigarette police spent a little time on pollution we can do something about, that might be front page news. S. Leelike
Manhattan
* How about some pictures of some of the millions of parents who sit in front of the TV, sucking down Jack Daniels and chain-smoking in their boxer shorts and house dresses?
The front-page photograph should have been of the healthy-looking Patrick Swayze. You made sure you had his cadaver picture there when he first got sick.
Raymond Dunn Jr.
Fairhaven, Mass.
* Are you kidding me with the Britney Spears article?
We are at war, yet that makes the cover?
When Spears lights one up for her kid, call me. Until then, why don’t we just leave her alone?
Dave Jensen
Mahopac
* Do you wish that we “dirty and nasty” smokers quit buying your paper?
You wouldn’t want patrons to be seen reading The Post outside with a cigarette.
I mean, what kind of role models would we be?
Linda Stewart
Manhattan