Tobacco Smoking and Consumption.
Does smoking save, people from, consumption t This is a question which has been raised by Dr J. O. M'Walter. He tells us that "tbe persons whom I had noticed in the out-patient departments o* the Dublin hospitals as non-smokers and suffering from consumption were of the age of from 16 to 22 years, and males." To' him, he tells us further, it seems th»t no social habit of consumptive patients is so remarkable as their general abstinence from tobacco. He does not think that the , inhaling of tobacco smoke has any direct germ-ldllino- effect, but it does not Kftm unscientific to hold that the fumes may have an effect on the membranes of the breathing passages such as will make it a leas suitable soil for the consumption germ.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 76
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134Tobacco Smoking and Consumption. Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 76
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