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Hazy memories

Sir: Certainly many of the anachronisms in Foyle’s War were non-verbal (Letters, 24 May), perhaps the most glaring being the virtual absence from the screen of smouldering Woodbines or any other brand of cigarette (non-filtered, of course) which were universally popular at the time. A more realistic depiction of mid-20th-century mores can be found in Mad Men, set in the New York advertising world at the beginning of the 1960s. Here, 90 per cent of the characters smoke 90 per cent of the time, and a permanent tobacco haze permeates every office building, restaurant, bar and bedroom.

Lord Monson

London W8

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