To the Editor:

When I read the headline of Hal Savage’s column, “Today’s Handheld Devices Are a Form of Electronic Heroin” (10/28), I was immediately offended and thought that was an extreme comparison. But I read on, thinking maybe there would be a logical explanation in the essay. I was wrong. Instead I read about what appears to be an older, miserable person who has nothing better to do with his time but criticize other people for using their cell phones in public.

And even worse was his comparison of “cell phone addiction” to an addiction of heroin!

November 4, 2015