TOBACCO AND CANCER.
SMOKING SAID TO BE AN EXCITING CAUSE OF TERRIBLE DISEASE. Does smoking cause cancer? Like a good many other alleged causes, it is all a case of personal susceptibility, as Sir H. T. Butlin, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, made plain in ‘his address at the opening of the congress of the International Dental Federation. He was referring to cancer of the tongue, and remarked that the disease was frequently associated with leukoplagia. (white patch on the lower lip. tongue, guni, or inside the cheek), but that it seldom occurred on a tongue which was free from that malady._ Dentists were agreed that predisposing causes of leukoplagia were rheumatism and gout, and that the exciting cause was tobacco. Yet people whom he had known to smoke cigars arid cigarettes from morning to night often had! the healthiest mouths'. On the other hand, he had seen persons enter his consulting room with one patch, on that part of the tongue where the smoke impinged; yet they were moderate smokers. It was a question of the susceptibility of the individual.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3325, 18 September 1911, Page 3
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183TOBACCO AND CANCER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3325, 18 September 1911, Page 3
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