I was pleased to read your report in today's Telegraph about the proposed ban on advertising aimed at children (Call to ban commercials aimed at children, 23 November 1999). Of course, all those with vested interests are squirming, or paying spokesmen and women to squirm for them, one of whom went so far as to suggest that "it would be children who will suffer most from any ban." The rest of us - having nothing to loose - know that it's a great idea.

An even better idea would be to ban ALL advertising. With more than half the world's population unable to afford the bare necessities of a decent life, it is a crime that billions upon billions of pounds should be spent every year on encouraging the wealthy third to spend even more on their already thoroughly spoiled selves.

And if that is not reason enough for a complete ban on advertising, there is also the fact that it makes a decisive contribution to much of the senseless economic growth which is depleting the planet's natural resources and endangering its life-support systems, as well as our own survival.