Air Pollution
Sir, —investigation and research have disclosed the difference between drunkards and alcoholics. Alcoholics are addicts, with specific tendencies discoverable and avoidable only by total abstention. Is it not at least possible that other addictions may date from birth —to drugs, nicotine, or various sensory stimuli reactive upon the brain and involving the nervous system, the glands, and emotional reactions following contact? Smoke—i.e., air pollution—is the factor common to both known causes of lung cancer, bronchitis, and other diseases. Smoke may contain, according to its source, varied poisons and acrid irritants affecting the eyes and mucous membranes of sensitive persons. Would education alone protect likely potential fume or drug addicts from precontaminating conditions, or defend susceptible lungs from tolerated air pollution in its many forms? Emphasis on aircleanliness and enforcement would limit smoke generation effectively for health promotion.—Yours, etc., NO RED HERRINGS. March 21. 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29778, 22 March 1962, Page 3
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