PIPE AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3595, 5 February 1927, Page 3

PIPE AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.

MEDICAL OPINIONS.

“Cigarettes are the most wholesome form of smoking, especially without a holder,” says Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, a distinguished chemist, and lecturer on mental diseases at St, Bartholomew’s Hospital, writing in the Medical Journal, contesting the prevalent opinion that a pipe is the best. He adds that a cigar also is preferable to a pipe, and that short cigars are' best. Pipes should he shallow in order to allow more air to enter, and to permit of more frequent refilling. All forms, of smoking, he says, injure growing people, hut moderate smoking does pot injure grown-ups. Most of the harm from pipes is due to their foulness.

Sir Robert says he finds women are more intemperate cigarettesmokers than men.

With other eminent medical men he agrees as to the evils of excessive smoking in its effect on the heart, digestion and sight, but he says it is good for the nerves, and that tobacco soothes the nerves of highly-strung persons. Professor E. Dixon says Sir Robert forgets that cigarette-smo-kers inhale poisonous gases, from which pipe-smokers are free.