Letters

Internet cafes

"Make internet clean for youths" (China Daily, April 10-11) makes some good points. As a teacher here in China, I sometimes drop into an internet center to check email, and I see exactly what the article describes: "juvenile game lovers ... playing games for hours at a stretch."

But I also see some other things that worry me. The smoke is always so thick I fear I will die from cancer caused by second-hand smoke. But a greater concern is not my health, but the attitude that is being instilled in today's youth: those "no smoking" signs between their ashtrays apparently mean nothing. When the same youths enter a restaurant, as I did in Beijing last week, the "no smoking" signs there mean nothing either.