LIGHT SMOKING
NOT CONSIDERED HARMFUL TO ATHLETES. OPINIONS OF A DOCTOR. Dr Adolphe Abrahams, Dean of the Westminster Hospital Medical School and medical officer to the British Olympic athletic team, speaking in London, said that the ill-effects of light smoking, if any, on athletes might be outweighed by its psychological benefits. He was speaking at the meeting of the Society for the Study of Inebriety. Many great track athletes, he said, smoked through their training. There was, however, an increasing tendency for young men to abstain from tobacco, possibly as a reaction against smoking by women. There was no foundation, Dr Abrahams declared, for the idea that alcohol was a good food for muscular work. His experience of athletes showed that hero-worship led them to “follow bdindly” the methods of outstanding sportsmen.
"The beer-drinking habit of a famous performer will inspire them to the imbibing of draughts distasteful, perhaps even nauseating,” he said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 9
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153LIGHT SMOKING Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 9
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