"Clinically we have observed the great fre- 

 quency of arterio-sclerosis in great smokers, but 

 we do not think that two or three light cigars 

 a day, but never before meals, can do any harm 

 save in exceptional cases. Indeed there are a 

 few instances of persons living to be over 100, 

 notwithstanding the fact that they were 

 smokers a fact contrary to the observation 

 of Hufeland who pretends that he never heard 

 of such a case. The famous English painter, 

 Frith, who died in October, 1909, used to smoke 

 6 cigars a day, and Mr. F. of Chartres, in 

 France, passed last year his 100th birthday in 

 spite of his having taken snuff all his life." 



If there were any serious lesions caused in the 

 human system by the continued use of tobacco 

 we might naturally expect that life insurance 

 companies would take notice of it, but hear 

 what they have to say {Medical Record, New 

 York, July 12, 1913) : 



Dr. H. G. Turney, at the meeting of Life 

 Insurance Medical Officers Association, London, 

 January, 1913, said that as far as observation 

 and study of the literature went he did not con- 

 sider that there was much evidence that the 

 habit of smoking can be convicted of any seri- 

 ous effect on the mortality table. One must 

 confess rather to a feeling of surprise that the 

 life-long absorption of so potent a drug as 



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