Email of the week

Occasionally we get letters or emails that I can't work out. Is the sender serious? Is it a wind-up? Or has it been planted by the anti-smoking lobby to catch us out? (I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I do sometimes wonder.)

This week we received the following email, allegedly from a secondary school teacher in Surrey:

Hello Forest, as a group tutor I am going to be talking to my 17-18 year old students about the health effects of smoking. Can you advise me on what positive advice I can give to my students to continue to smoke, or to begin smoking?

My wife, who is a teacher herself, suggests that I ignore it.