Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-12-15 | Page 1 | Smoking is Injurious

Not to the Body but to the Mind of Students New York. Dec. 15. That smoking ic injurious to mind :ind nut to the body, is the conclusion drawn by Dr. George H. Moylan, director of tho Columbia university gymnasium as the result of some extensive Investigations Investi-gations Just made public. The tesH show l hat in general al collego smokers smok-ers make bolter athletes, while nun-smokers nun-smokers stand hlgner in classes. Dr. Meylan took as the subjects for his tefts 233 Columbia students, 115 of whom smoked habitually. He kept n record of their physical condition al the beginning and at the end of the two year 8 and also ascertained what progress they had made in their . eludles. Tho results of the experiments showed that sixty-6ix smokers gained an average of eight pounds in weight and 1.2 centimeters In height as against six pounds nd 1.1 centimeters for those who do not smoke. The non-smokers gained 2u per eent in lung capacity as against eight per cent, for the smokers, but the smokers surpassed them in total strength by having an Increase of 1 0,1 units to 101. Hut In scholarship the non smokers forged to the front and reversed mat trs. Al entrance, the smokers averaged aver-aged S9 in their studies as against 01 for their competitors In the two-year two-year period the smokers averaged 62 per cent with 7 per cent of tailurcs at- against CO iter cent with only 1 per cent of failures for those who did not smoke.