CIGARETTES FIRST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10309, 19 January 1927, Page 5

CIGARETTES FIRST

BETTER THAN PIPE

CHEMIST’S THEORIES

LONDON, Dec. 31. “Cigarettes are the most wholesome form of smoking without a holder,” says Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, a distinguished chemist. lecturer on mental diseases at bt. Bartholomew’s Hospital, waiting m the “Medical Journal,” contesting the prevalent opinion that a pipe is the best. • . . He adds that a cigar also is preferable to a pipe, and that short cigars are best. Pipes should be shallow in order to allow more air to enter, and to permit of more frequent refilling. , . All forms of smoking, he say s, injure growing people, but moderate smokino- does not injure grown-ups. Most of the harm from pipes is due to their foulness. Sir Robert says lie finds women more intemperate cigarette-smokers than men. . , With other eminent mecucal men he agrees as to the evils of excessive smoking in its effect on the heart, digestion and sight, but he says that it It good for the teeth, and that tobacco" soothes the nerves of highlystrung persons. . Professor E. Dixon- says that. Sir Robert forgets that cigarette-smokers inhale poisonous gases from which pipe-smokers are free.