CORONER'S CIGARS
' DAILY ALLOWANCE DIFFERS WITH A DOCTOR LONDON, March iU '\ou say deceased smoked .'3O cigarettes a day? .1 am 84 years old, and J smoke from 15 to 20 cigars a day,' : declared tlm coroner at West Derby, Mr. S. Brighouse. at an inquest to-day. I lie coroner refused to accept a statement by Dr. McLelland, a police surgeon, that .Tames Hampson, aged 68, had died from nicotine poisoning. I started smoking at 8..'J0 a.m. to-day, and have been smoking ever since," said Mr. Brighouse. "You can come up and feci my pulse and put your stethoscopo over my organs. I shall give, a verdict of death from 11 a . Ula causes, because nicotine poisoning has not been proved." Dr. McLelland admitted that he. Binoked from 20 to 30 cigarettes a day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21764, 2 April 1934, Page 10
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