INVALIDED SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1918, Page 8

INVALIDED SOLDIERS.

CHECKING CIGARETTE SMOKING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christcliurch, Last Sight. Referring to-day to smoking nmuiig soldiers, Sir .fa-nes All?') said, as re"aids the troops at th» front. In.-; advisers stated tliat under'heavy physical ami mental strain the smoking of <\j>arettes or pipe was a great relaxation and comfort, but the question Jed been raised of the 'danger of issuing an nillimited number of eisurcttes to men in hospital and those rotas patients. He remarked that he w.is afraid this was undoubtedly tni'\ and it had been suggested that patients with Ivng or cardiac troubles should receivo only a limited number. He was not a medical man, but he thought there was a great deal too much cigarette *moKing amongst the New Zealand soldiers, particularly those in homes or hospitals, and he was afraid, in sunn: instances, it was retarding their recovery Tit the interests of the soldiers themselves, Che generosity of the public mig : if. therefore. be checked a little in this direction, for there was ample evidence from the eoldiors that as many as 50 or (10 cigarettes were smoked in a day. He did not want to stop smoking, but would be glad to see excessive smoking checked. The will-power of the men to stop it themselves might well be assisted in their own interests.