SMOKING BLAMED
Shorter Life Expectancy (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CHICAGO, May 10. Tobacco smoking is a health hazard and shortens life expectancy, the American Medical Association says in a new pamphlet on “Smoking: Facts you should know.” “The longer you smoke and the more you smoke, the greater the risk of developing lung cancer,” the pamphlet says. “If you quit smoking, the risk is diminished.” Smoking “is alleged to cause cancer of the lungs and bladder, increase the frequency of such circulatory diseases as coronary heart disease, heart muscle damage, arterial disease, and possibly high blood pressure,” it said. “It contributes to chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and to other obstructive lung diseases, and is related to a host of other health problems.”
A smoker risks greater danger if he smokes to a short butt, the pamphlet said. Nicotine and tars are partly deposited on to the cold portion of tobacco between the point of combustion and the mouth, “only to be revaporised when the fire reaches them.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30438, 12 May 1964, Page 12
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