1 he doctors are opposed to tobacco for soldiers. Next to venereal disease, tobacco causes more sit kness than any other given agency. The other morning twenty-five nun reported foi sick call with sore throats. All but one smoked from four to fortv cigarettes a day. Surgeon McLain, of the British Army, says that it weakens the heart-muscles, increases the heart action, and destroys the nerve's, but men cannot shoot straight when they use tobacco. This statement can be confirmed in any armv camp.—Chaplain Roberts, 7th US. Engineers.
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 283, 18 January 1919, Page 10
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