IS SMOKING HARMFUL?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 10

IS SMOKING HARMFUL?

ETERNAL CONTROVERSY EXPERTS STILL ARGUING By Cable. —Press Associate<*'■ —Copyright LONDON, Saturday. London specialists disagree with Dr. Earp, an American, who. as a result of experiments at Antioch College, Ohio, said non-smokers’ brains were better than those of smokers. He asserted that 10 per cent, of the heavy smokers at the college were dismissed owing to low scholarship marks, six per cent.’ of the lighter smokers and only two per cent, of non-smokers were dismissed. Professor Leonard Hall, director of the Department of Applied Physiology, at the National Institute of Medical Research, recommends the office worker to use a pipe and substitute smoking in the fresh air. He says this mildly stimulates the air passages, preventing infection of the respiratory tract with germs such as those of influenza and pneumonia. Another specialist says, tobacco is a very useful sedative and rests the brain. It prevents the human machine from overworking. He says smoking is the best fashion that has been introduced for women, as it steadies the nerves.

A third specialist voices the opinion that since Raleigh many clever men have found inspiration and solace in tobacco. If the feeble-minded smoke it does not imply that the majority of non-smokers are more intelligent.— Sun.