SMOKING AND HEALTH

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13930, 8 July 1919, Page 4

SMOKING AND HEALTH

NOTABLE INVES'nGATOIN INTERKATiONAL COMM€TrEE Aju iDitorwaifciionial ccxmwiti<osi oi eiraiTijeJntL spcciiialiatts is being! formesd imden* the presidency of Dr- Alexaindfer Lara-: be-nb. one af the leading 1 Ke^v York ■ pihysica'ans. aaid formerly head of the I Pled' Citvss im France, 'to mialko ami impaTtdlal iinrestligiaticn inrtoi tffie effectts of toibacco on health SAnd effioi' entey. < Sdr WiHiaim Osier, ■who) is said tso! be devoifomg Hmusieilf to specdal sliudies \ of tthe heanti, is reportied to h^iive joant-1 ed the cioirainittee. Amoinig tihe oitiher j miemibeirs aw.-—Professor Fa.rTiMim'' amd Fisher of Yale ; Dr O. H. Rogers, \ chief .physiicfam of th© New York Life. Ineaiir'ainicie CJomtpainy. 'and I>r !E. L. \ Fisk, head 1 oif the Life Exteinsiion; Ini- j stEttu'te. Iti is inltended to incluidiei inidusitrial leaders ais well as ewaomikj' ! aod medioal speciialisfe <m tihie ocrtmi-: loittoe, aiTid itihei enaiafc effecttlsi of toibaiei-i 100 will be dfetteriruiined by ecientifb !.. erpea-imenitls ©mi feltiudSeiiitisj, athieites, 1 business leaders amd working mcmi. 1 I Dr. Fisk/ ispeaikkig' <m behaiLf of the ' I ocimimiittee, sadd': — '{m- aiuithodtaftiive i amialyais of the toibaoooi siit'iuaitdoni has ■nover been maide. The question is ■ mow beit^gl foiroed on 1 public 'attention, and thle ptiiblio, iiheirefoir©, shoniild haive the true faidtis. 'WhetL oiur iavestii.g!ai-; tion are ooanpleited we shall euibnui't a repiorti oovoiiiiig all phascfe oif the tobiaoaoi quesrtdota, and. people can determine initelligie(n.tily whaib they Want done"We BWaMi divide the oomimji'titeie ' inlto eecAffianißi demoted tio ipftiyaMoigy,, dinioal raedioiMe, hygiene, amd eoa- ■ mwrnios. Tlue exttenitt of -flic world's food pttublem® will be considered, alotng with, ttlhe iptirely physical effeotis of' ttoibacoot oca) awkerg, am*! even the relaitiioin of Mnoikliing to thie epreadiTig 1 of ifireß." Professor Roraain, of Synacaise University, whose book, 'Niootihio Next,' SiUgigested tthiarti tolbaicp(> shoiulld foJiliow clbohoi in, be-iimg ; perioihiibiltied for pjeTi>. eni.l use, wiill be ai menDbeir 1 of the 1 oommitibee, bultl smuokerlsi wOl. a!I«oi be 1 included, v «> that the ipensowal atti-! tudo will play hoi pant mi the fiaiail | report. , „ - »