WOMEN AND SMOKING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20060, 29 March 1927, Page 16

WOMEN AND SMOKING.

AMERICAN DOCTOR’S VIEWS. That the Anglo-Saxon race is doomed unless women stop smoking cigarettes, (s the opinion of Dr Daniel 11. Kress, nerve specialist, of the Washington Sanatorium. ‘‘America is face to face with a serious problem,” he said. “While the cigarette habit is harmful to men it is more injurious to women.” “If young women take up this habit generally, there will be a regular landslide in physical and moral degeneracy, and the race will be doomed. Children born to parents who arc inveterate cigarette smokers are of a nervous type, and will in the future fill to overflowing our asylums for the insane.” "Cigarette consumption in the United States has increased nearly 300 per cent, in the last 10 years, and Dr Kress atlibutes much of this to the adoption of smoking by women. "Women have taken up the habit innocently,” he said, “just as they have adopted other popular customs, such as short skirts and bobbed hair.” Dr Kress said that scientific studies hate shown women to be more subject to "tobacco heart” than men'; that cigarette smoking injures the melody of the voice; mars facial beauty, and in time tans (he skin or "pickles” it. “When the woman cigarette smoker reaches the ago of 30,” he adds, “she ! s almost certain to have a shrivelled up skin and an expressionless countenance. “With the false idea that the cigarette soothes tho nerves, many take up the habit. On the contrary, the cigarette in time shatters the nerves.”