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Show WEED HARMFUL TO WOMEN Scientific Investigation Has Proved That Tobacco Should Not Be Used by the Fair Sex. It seems that at last a purely physiological physio-logical reason has been found why women should not smoke, apart from the very general prejudice which ex-I ex-I ists in this country. "Smoking," says Dr. Hargrave, a London physician, "does not have the same effect on women that it does on men. As imperious necessity felt by most smokers to satisfy their passion pas-sion after eating is physiologically explained ex-plained by the excitation cf the salivary sali-vary glands which secretions, so useful use-ful in digestion, the smoke augments. Moreover, It has been shown that it sterilizes the saliva and that this is really beneficial from the viewpoint of the possible Infection from the foods themselves. "Hut with women it is a serious conclusion con-clusion reached from many experiments experi-ments that few of them need tobacco, while the proportion of men whose salivary secretions were stimulated and sterilized by smoking was very large, the proportion of women on the other hand, was very small. Even in woien who had been habitual smokers for years, the action of this weed was found to be less marked, in fact almost negligible. So apparently Dr. Hargraves is of the opinion that women should not smoke, because they do not need it. |