SMOKING

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1927, Page 4

SMOKING

' *■ ' ■j. ai./ omioxs iukeer. AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. i i-' a vc!"; lan I habit. and - ; ij. \!-r. .! nil;- .!m:rs':! III'! i('U j |'•Medi-ul J.)-;: n:il.” L'uid-in. j iTfahert e.iniendx that cigarette | i;io most u'h'i!' 1 anni' form of smoking I contrary to tin.' prova’cnt opinion that ! pipo ••mohio'C is tli least h:iniiful. ! 1'!,., Auckland doctor soil I Hint pipes i ; !j h y iliiius. and lie agreed with Robert \ mist rang Jones t!mt film's ! v-orc i•"! I'i-rn!;! • to pines. All smoking | v::; I ad. he said, hut lie added that >",iiii>! inn s lie smoke-! as inav.v as 1! 0 j eiion-ettes a da;.', although a! present ! was not Miioking at ;di. ! Another prominent mediea! man who ; specialises in diseases of tli - eyes. ears. ! n'osa and throat, said he was of the : -pinion iha! hotli curare'.!- am! pipe 1 nnohiipi' were good in moderation. hut indu bring in smoking to excess. like o(. T - excesses, was harmful. Pipes | allowed tii be« ibi':!. in whieli state ! hour of gerins. j "I'asC's of smoking being harmful to I eyes which are si commonly spoken

j of are quiet rare." said the doctor. I "111 fiiet . eases of hlinduess or pa.rtial j hlinilness. due I . smoking are very infrcqgeiuly seen, even by the busy ophthehnie .nraeiitioners. One does not e a !i df a dozen cases in a year.” Another M>«dalist in eve. nose, and ’iron! treatment said: ‘‘Tobacco is a ini facer in predisposing to catarrhal affections of the air passages hv re-dn-ing t!:e resisting powers of the •embrere. The average man who had Indnl;vJ in tobacco and alcohol for p: (o •_»:) years has a chronic catarrhal threat, and tlie appearance of the ’’•roar of the average woman, who has ■i . .... indulged provides a. striking ; onl:r;ist. Whether tobaceo is used as cigarette or cigar, or is smoked in a nine cr chewed, makes but little clifFer- • Possiblv cigarette is more rmfid to the air passages, as it is . * ways inhaled more or less into ttv lungs."