Tobacco Smoking and ConSumption.
-'D6e's smoking save people from consumption? This is a question which has been raised by Dr J. O. M'Walter., He tells us that "the persons whom I Had noticed, in tkeiopt-patierft-'depaxtments ifaff ''the Dublin hispitals as «on smokers -and suffering from consumption were of the age of from 16 to 22 years, and males." To him, he tells vs L .further, At seems thai/nio. ;social< -habit of consumptive....jjatient6.' is : so remarkable as their general abstinence f rom • to"bacco. He doeg not think that the inhaling of tobacco smoke has any direct gerni-kiljing effeot, bat it cloes not seem -unscientific to hold that the frimos may have an effeot on the membranes the breathing passages such as will .make it o less suitable soil for the consumption germ.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 76
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131Tobacco Smoking and Con-Sumption. Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 76
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