EFFECTS OF SMOKING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3687, 6 September 1927, Page 3

EFFECTS OF SMOKING.

SPECIALISTS DIFFER. Lonfdon, September 2. London specialists disagree with the American Dr. Earp, who, as the result of experiments at Antioch College, Ohio, says that non-smok-ers’ brains are better than smokers’. Ten per cent, of heavy smokers at the college were dismissed owing tc low scholarship and 6 per cent, of lighter smokers and 2 per cent, of non-smokers. Professor Leonard Hill recommends the offilee worker to use a pipe as a substitute for fresh air. Smoking mildly stimulates the air passages, preventing infections of the respiratory tract like influenza and pneumonia, he says. Another specialist says tobacco is a very useful sedative, rests the brain, and prevents .the machine over-working. Smoking is the best fashion introduced for women, as it steadies the nerves, he declares. A third specialist is of opinion that since Raleigh many clever men have found inspiration and solace in tobacco. If feeble-minded smoke, it does not imply that the majority of non-smokers are more intelligent.