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Show given regular chewing gum. No one using the actual drugs ceased to smoke. This fact bears out medical authorities' opinion that only those people amenable to psychological suggestion would find drugs an aid toward stopping stop-ping the smoking habit. posedly reduces smoking pleasure. pleas-ure. In the tests reported on in Good Housekeeping, some participants were given Bantron, others Ban-Smoke. Ban-Smoke. An equal group were used as a control. Unbeknownst! to them, they were given an ordinary or-dinary Vitamin C tablet or stick of plain chewing gum. Medically these are called placebos. From the group tested, only one person stopped smoking, , and she was Stop-Smoking Drugs Found Ineffective Can you lick the tobacco habit in one week with the aid of a "stop-smoking" drug? Claims made by drug manufacturers manu-facturers say you can. But Good Housekeeping says no! The Good Housekeeping Institute, which tested two products, Bantron and Ban-Smoke, on a group of volunteers, vol-unteers, has proven that claims made by these preparations are not justified. This conclusion matches that of the Medical Association, the Federal Food and Drug Administration Admin-istration nd the National Better Business Bureau. All the authoritative author-itative sources agree that the only priceless cure for smoking habit is will power "Stop-smoking" drugs currently current-ly on the market are either in a tablet, lozenge, or chewing gum form. Bantron is a tablet which contains lobeline sulfate, an ingredient in-gredient designed to satisfy the craving for tobacco. Ban-Smoke, a candy coated chewing gum, has I benzocaine, a chemical that sup-' |