WOMEN AND SMOKING

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1924, Page 15

WOMEN AND SMOKING

AN INSIDIOUS ENEMY TO BEAUTY.

Many young women to-day smoke a great deal moro than is good eithor for their health or for their complexions, declares a _ writer in the Melbourne Age. It is not a question of serious heart affections, the occurrence of which from tobacco smoking was rightly described as over-estimated at the recent British Medical Association meeting. The trouble which accompanies^ the constant cigarette is loss serious, but as it is more insidious it is the more likely to prevail. The young woman finds her energies gradually waning, her digestion beginning to cause trouble, and her skin, hitherto clear and bright, becoming muddy or spotted. Sho is apt to attribute her altered state to anything but the cigarette. This has become so much a part of her daily existence that sho does not realiso the important position it has assumed in her bodily economy. She smokes before sho dresses, with hor morning cup of tea. She smokes in tha bathroom. Sho lights a cigarette before she has finished the slight meal that suffices for her breakfast. Tho courses of her lunch' are interspersed with cigarettes. These accompany her tea and interrupt her dinner. Between meals she is seldom without a long holder in her mouth, and in the holder is the inevitable cigarette. No digestion will stand all this interference. What happens is that without experiencing any actual pain she gradually loses her natural appetite. Only when her nerves begin to give way and she finds herself a prey to restlessness and insomnia, does she know that something is wrong. Then when she seeks advice, her stained fingers, her dulled expression, her wilted figure tell tho doctor, at a glance where the trouble lies._ A little strength of mind and moderation will soon effect a complete change.