ON SMOKING

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 1915, Page 3

ON SMOKING

An insurance journal—The Policyholder—has some amusing remarks on the subject of smoking. It says that "the habit of smoking lias become so widespread that lew evor stop to think of the result that must accrue to the physical system. Thorp has been a strong argument against the use of tobacco, but this usually lias heen based on the needless expenditure of money involved rather than on any ill-effects which ware likely to be experienced by trie CTnokei*. "Now.'Ahowever, we are to have a crusade against the seductive weed. "As usual America is trying to make our flesh creep. Dr Woodward, of the Massachusetts Insane Asylum, says that tobacco produces insanity, and it is on record that the famous Dr Abernethy declared the moral senses to be stupefied with tobacco. Dr -I. II Kellogg savs that, in his opinion, tobacco i* the worst vice in civilisation : and Dr Koelc that 'tobacco produces debility; it lays the "foundation for nearly ©very nervous disorder; it produces colour-blindness, partial or toal loss of vision, various forms ot ins-nut v. epilepsy. rheumatism, asthma, dyspepsia, catarrh, tobacco heart and cancer of the stomach.' Our readors who feef that life will not be worth living without a smoke will be glad to learn that aside Irom the diseases mentioned, however, it is not claimed that tobacco does very mnch harm." We think, however, that the man who can stand this small list of diseases must have a givd foundation to work upon."