CIGARETTE-SMOKING DANGEROUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3144, 20 November 1922, Page 2

CIGARETTE-SMOKING DANGEROUS.

An English physician lias pronounced cigarettes as the most dangerous form oi smoking lor several reasons, which he sots out as follows:—The are generally made of very mild tobacco and this is an inducement to excess. T believe that what is known as tbe "chain" smoker, who lights another cigarette from the stump of the last, and so on for hours, is common in both sexes. Weight for weight, comparing cigars, pipe tobacco, and cigarettes, the amount of nicotine absorbed in the system is greatest in the last. Then there is the paper to be considered. Whatever virtues may attach to tobacco are not shared by paper', particularly by the paper with which the cheapest kind of cigarettes are made. Hut the worst feature of cigarette smoking j, s inhalation, which is almost universal among those who smoke nothing else. For some unfathomable rea.-.-. sou most of the women I know think it piquant to blow the smoke through their nostrils after having swallowed it. J hero is, perhaps, some sensual gratification also, for I notice that most men who are inveterate cigarette smokers always inhale. That is calculated, to lead to much worse results physical and mental, than the mere absorption of nicotine in moderate doses into the system.

A London paper sports :—Wild West were attempted, unsuccessfully by a suspected burglar at Kettering, when stopped by Constable Ward and Houghton early one momiug latelv. Levelling an automatic pistol at the policemen, he ordered them to hand over their truncheons. This they did I lie man then told them, still at the pistol's point, to handcuff theineelv.es. Ihe constables pretended to do so; but when toe approached to see if the handcuffs were properly fastened, they sprang upon him and placed him under arrest. Earlier in the evening inaiii had seen two men in a house in Rothmell. He entered the premises, but the men escaped. The man with the automatic pistol was believed to In* . :mo of these, men, and he was stoppetliL accordingly., Subsequently man, suspected of being his companion, ' was arrested. The pistol, which was not loaded, was stolen last month in a >urglary at Broughton.