in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 

 Vol. 162, p. 856, 1910: 



"There is not one scintilla of evidence that 

 malignant disease of the throat is due in any 

 way to the use of tobacco ; and if it be admitted 

 that carcinoma (cancer) of the lip or tongue 

 has been produced by smoking, it is clearly 

 not tobacco, but traumatism (i. e., injury) from 

 the stems of the pipe or other tobacco con- 

 tainer that is responsible. 



"It does not appear or at least has not been 

 proven that tobacco causes any definite charac- 

 teristic lesions of the nose, throat or ear." 



Dr. Reik is a man of high standing in the 

 medical profession. His opinion is clear and 

 unmistakable and it is presumed he has seen 

 thousands of cases of nose and throat diseases 

 and knows what he is talking about. 



Dr. Reik refers to the question of so-called 

 smokers' cancer. Cancer is a disease which at- 

 tacks all kinds of people and may occur in 

 widely different parts of the body. The causa- 

 tion of this disease is not known to the medical 

 profession but what is known about it is that it 

 usually occurs on the site of some previous in- 

 jury. Thus cancer .may occur on the tongue 

 as the result of the constant irritation of a 

 jagged broken tooth. 



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