Smoking
Sir,—Of 15 boys, “seven smoked,” yet believed they had had “no experience of any drugs, and all were violently opposed to any sort of drug being freely available.” (“The Press,” July 9). Tobacco, however, is a drug under the Food and Drugs Act, and is by far the most dangerous narcotic drug in use, licitly or illicitly, in New Zealand, accounting (on a probable estimate based on statistics) for thousands more deaths annually than all other narcotics put together. Many a smoker absorbs in a day an amount of nicotine which would be lethal in a single dose. One-third of a cigarette chewed by a child can kill it The Health Department is aware of the risks, and some years ago banned sales of extracts of tobacco; yet incongruously, tobacco itself remains freely available. Mr H. E. Cohen, senior prison psychologist, is reported rightly stating: “What we must remember is that what society regards as normal is not necessarily healthy.”— Yours, etc., PAUL MALING. July 10, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31109, 12 July 1966, Page 16
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168Smoking Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31109, 12 July 1966, Page 16
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