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SUPPORT FOR “FACTS FIRST” Sir, —I submit the following facts in support of your correspondent “Facts First.” The Secretariat of the World Health Organisation of the United Nations has had a report made on the question of alcoholism. This report states that alcohol is a poison to the nervous system. The double solubility of alcohol in water and fat enables it to invade the nerve cell. According ;o Marchand, a man may become a chronic alcoholic without ever having shown symptoms of drunkenness, [n the families of alcoholics there is a high proportion of psychopaths. This is illustrated from data furnished by the Swiss psychiatrist, Dr. Demme.
If the quantity of alcohol taken is small the work will only be more prolonged. Many poisons act slowly but none the less surely. Alcohol in small doses is one of these. In Great Britain, the expectation of life for men aged 20 is 40 years, but for Rechabites, who are abstainers, it is 48 years. Abstainers live longer than drinkers. Yours etc., SOBER.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 97, 18 September 1950, Page 4
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