CIGARETTES AND COMPLEXIONS
A woman who is an inveterate cigarette smoker will destroy her complexion and become "putty faced," according to the Sydney Health Officer (Dr. Purdy). "I don't object, to a , girl smoking a cigarette occasionally,"- said Dr. Purdy, "but to see her as one sometimes does in a fashionable restaurant srAoking cigarettes one after another means that she is sacrificing her good looks, her energy, and her health. ' "Apipo, I may say," added the doctor," is not nearly as harmful as cigarettes, but one couldn't imagine a. pretty girl-with _ pipe. It would be even less enticing than a muddy complexion." Dr. Purdy said that be frequently had to examine lads and other persons seeking employment. Many of them were suffering- from tobacco poisoning. This was particularly noticeable in the case of returned soldiers, who, owing to the generosity of the Australian Comforts Fund, had probably acquired the habit of cigarette smoking. Medical officers during the war came to know the results caused ,by excessive1 cigarette smoking as. "DIA.H.," which meant "Disordered action of the heart."
Dr. Purdy said that girls smoking excessively showed the same symptoms as boys.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1922, Page 12
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190CIGARETTES AND COMPLEXIONS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1922, Page 12
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