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as non-smokers, that the smokers showed a loss of lung 

 capacity amounting to about 10 per cent as compared with 

 the non-smokers, and in almost every case the non-smokers 

 showed higher scholarship. Since there were over 200 

 men involved in this experiment, the figures ought to be 

 worth something. Other experiments have shown that 

 runners, especially distance runners, do not have as good 

 chances of winning if they are smokers. Many coaches 

 ask runners and football men to cut out smoking while 

 in training because of the effect on their wind. An experi- 

 ment by Professor Lombard of the University of Michigan 

 showed that on days he smoked his muscles lost 41 per 

 cent of their working power. So this looks as if the 

 coaches were right. 



Tobacco May Cause Serious Injury. One insurance 

 company has figures based upon 180,000 policyholders 

 which show that the abstinents from tobacco had almost 

 twice as much likelihood of living to old age as those who 

 smoked moderately all their lives. Dyspepsia, catarrhal 



Wright Pierce 



Successful football coaches forbid the use of alcohol and tobacco among the 

 members of their teams. Why are such teams usually successful ? 



