ARMY SURGEONS EXTOL EFFECT OF CIGARETTES.
Anti-cigarette reformers would get scanty consideration from the medical corps of the United States Army, according to major surgeons stationed in hospitals along the front, some ot whom say the cigarett produces a relaxation for the wounded and the men just out of the trenches that no medicine could possibly produce. "I have seen men borne in on stretchers or staggering in on their feet, with their faces contorted showing either physical pain or mental strain from their grim experiences in the trenches, relax, smile and ask for something to eat after having a whiff of a cigarett," said a surgeon rin charge of a casualty clearing station. "The effects of the cigarett is wonderful. It certainly is not medicinal for the action is too quick. As soon as the lads take their whiff they seem eased and relieved of their agony."
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Taihape Daily Times, 13 September 1918, Page 2
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148ARMY SURGEONS EXTOL EFFECT OF CIGARETTES. Taihape Daily Times, 13 September 1918, Page 2
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