Effects of smoking
Sir, —Premature deaths and disabling illness caused by cigarette smoking have now reached epidemic proportions. Some main results are lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema and coronary heart disease. Nicotine is implicated in the latter. J. P. Wild (August 14) has to be joking to challenge my statement that nicotine, not heroin, is the major cause of disease and death in New Zealand. Deaths from heroin or adulterants are of the order of three to six annually. Deaths from heart disease attributable to smoking run to thousands. The risk is reported as two or three times that for non-smokers. Actually it is greater, since many “non-smokers” are forced to inhale the unfiltered “sidestream” smoke which contains more nicotine than “main-stream” smoke—and so they, too, contract smoking diseases. Varian J. W’il-sc-n’s remarks (July 30) concerning smoking are apt and certainly no “fantasy-land.” —Yours, etc., PAUL MALING. August 15, 1979.
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