Show SMOKING AND HEALTH Those who smoke in moderation have a far tar better chance of ot resisting disease than those who do not smoke at all Definite experiments have recently been made which show that tobacco smoke rapidly destroys in particular the comma bacillus of ot cholera A A. good many years ago says the Lancet it was reported by the senior me medical ical officer of ot Greenwich workhouse workhouse work work- house that the tho tobacco-smoking tobacco inmates inmates inmates in in- mates enjoyed comparative immunity from epidemics a cholera epidemic at Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg Ham Ham- burg It was reported that not a single workman engaged in the factory in that city was attacked by the dis dis- ease Later It itt was stated that amongst a body of ot only eight cases four and deaths from cholera occurred Tobacco o smoke has destroyed the bacilli of Asiatic cholera as well as asSi Si monia and there Is evidence that as lS been preventive of some forms of nasal catarrh Excessive tobacco smoking of ot t course may easily give rise to constitutional constitutional effects which dl diminish the resisting resisting resisting re re- re- re power of ot the body to to tOJ disease in which case it is probable the habit would afford not only no protection but an opening for invasion |