SMOKING BY WOMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3867, 6 November 1928, Page 2

SMOKING BY WOMEN.

VIEWS AS TO THE EFFECT. OPINIONS IN MELBOURNE. Are women losing their health and beauty by too much smoking? asks a Alelbourne paper. . Before the clinical congress of American College of Surgeons, Dr. Herbert Schlink, of Sydney, declared that American women were becoming extremely nervous and J neurotic through excessive cigarette smoking, and as a result were seriously injuring their beauty. Alelbourne specialists give conflicting answers to the question. A woman doctor, who smokes herself, said that it was all a matter of moderation. She did not f think Alelbourne women smoked too much, but there was lots of men who had the eternal cigarette in their mouth. Excessive smoking, like anything else done to the extreme, would be harmful, but she did not see why women .should be more susceptible to its ill-effeet3 than men. A nerve specialist emphatically asserted that smoking has a .very deleterious effect on the nervous system, especially for women. It was not the sole cause, but it was a very prominent contributing factor in many nervous states. The doctor admitted that he did not go to parties, but he had seeu enough women smoking in public to convince him that there was too much of it. In the last few years the habit had grown rapidly among women here. “I think it is doing a great deal of harm,” he said. “It is bad enough for highly-strung young men, but it is far worse for ’J young girls.”