DAILY HEALTH HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)

DAILY HEALTH HINTS.

A PHYSICIAN ON THE ADVANTAGES OF TOBACCO SMOKING.

Why should men smoke? There are some good reasons. Many break off from a brain-concentrating occupation for a smoke who would, probably, enjoy no interval at all otherwise. Such breaks are not only advantageous, they are often positively necessary; therefore the practice that encourages and helps to obtain them is a distinctly beneficial one. Smoking helps the subject to rest. Sedentarily employed, a man may be induced to sit for many hours during the day without enjoying an interval if he have nothing to break off for. But a cigarette or pipe will give him occasion to put his hands in his pockets and walk up and down the room, or may induce Wm to go out of doors a little, so that hfmay obtain a pleasant and reinvigoratitiP- change from labour. Wer*he to merely stop his routine work and do absolutely nothing, his thoughts would be certain to wander back to dv y Tgain, and both he and his work would suffer in the end. On the other hand, the more restless some temperaments are, the more will ?hTy derive advantage from smoking, in moderation. A pipe helps to smooth ao wn irritability; it soothes- a troubled spirit and gives comfort to the weary. At no time of life Is smoking of greater advantage than du'rlng retiring old age.-. From 'The Secret of Good Health and LOTg Life,' by Mr Haydn Brown, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.