NERVES OF GIRL SMOKERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1920, Page 5

NERVES OF GIRL SMOKERS.

BAD EFFECTS OF CIGARETTES O>J UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. jj "Many of the women here smoke.M many as a hundred cigarettes a day,*! writes Mr. James Gall, of Glasgow, M the Daily Express. y. "The effect of smoking on tniversit* students has been a bad one," he addedj "At the last big examination the result) were poorer than ever before—a ft*)! which may be safely attributed to detrimental effects of smoking on titi students' mentality." A Barley street physician says it WW difficult to say whether the smoking ten; deney among women was due to nervous strain of the war or was an; outcome of the community life which had been developed. A few cigarette* q day cannot hurt the normal, healthy woman; but when the thing become* a habit, and one cigarette is lighted from another, it js most injurious to the eyw, heart, nerves, lungs, and entire system. "I can quite believe that the families: of hard-smoking women would be less healthy than those of non-smokers. Aj a woman's nervous system is far mort delicately attuned and of finer fabric? than the average man's, excessive smoky ing has a worse effect on her than onj her men folk. I find that a large per'! centago of my nervous patients srtarteit, 6moking when under some severe grief or strain. While the cigaretto soothes them} 1 for the moment it aggravates their n*r* vous condition." y