Smoker's Tremors
SMOKING (from 1YC) was one of those handy, pocket-size Nesta Pain preductions about topical subjects. It sketched in the usual reasons (or excuses?) for smoking-"it’s me neryes""helps me to concentrate"-"I know it’s bad for me, but .. .""-"you have to be sociable." It’s nice to know that smoking has a sedative action on the brain, and increases the sugar content of the blood. But just as we are being lulled into a sense of false security, here comes the invaluable and inevitable Dr. X and his colleague, the Scots specialist, to give us the low-down. Does smoking cause smoker’s cough, smoker’s heart, smoker’s tremor? Apparently not; anyhow, here’s
just what happens to your gasper-17 puffs to a cigarette .. . 33 cc. per puff. .. « diluted 15 times by air in the lungs . .. Yes, definitely bad for trainingpulse up... skin temperature down... blood pressure. . . Then there’s’ the vexed question of lung cancer; and there (says the specialist) it makes a big difference. A sobering thought to end with: the older generation, you can’t do much with them, but youngsters, perhaps they’d better lay off. . . Ah, well (ugh ugh hooagh), here goes another 33 cc.
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 10
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194Smoker's Tremors New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 10
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