WOMEN AND SMOKING.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17076, 13 April 1927, Page 4

WOMEN AND SMOKING.

AMERICAN DOCTOR’S VIEW. That the Anglo-Saxon race is doomed unless women stop smoking cigarettes is 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 are Inveterate cigarette smokers arc 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 ten years, and Dr. Kress attributes 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 have shown women to ’be more subject to “tobacco heart” than men; that cigarette smoking injures the molody of the voice; mars facial beauty, and in time tans the skin or “pickles” it, “When the woman cigaretto smoker reaches the ago of 50,” he adds, “slio is almost certain to have a shrivelled up skin and an expressionless countenance, “With the false idea that the cigarette soothes the norves, many take up the habit. On the contrary, the cigarette shatters” the nerves."