Dear Ann Landers,
aybe I'm a nut but my blood pressure zooms about fifty points when I see my wife smoke a cigarette. I am not opposed to smoking on moral grounds, but some women took terrible when they smoke and my wife looks 40 worse than most. The cigarette just dangles in the comer of her mouth like the house man in a 21 game. When the smoke curls up into her face, she squints her eyes and the mascara runs. Nora smokes filter tips. Sometimes she absentmindedly lights up the wrong end of the cigarette, and the house smells like the wind is coming from the packing house in Omaha. I don't want to get into a thing with Nora about smoking, but I wish she'd quit. Do you think I have the right to ask her? -Nora's Mate

Dear Mate,
Of course. And she has the right to do as she pleases. If a woman doesn't mind discoloring her teeth, fouling her breath, smelling up her hair, setting fire to a few hundred dollars every year, burning small holes in her clothes and the furniture, and finally, if she chooses to ignore the evidence that there is a link between lung cancer and cigarette smok-ing-well, that's her business.