Show A New Blow At Tobacco THE TOBACCO-USING WORLD has been stunned in recent weeks by repeated thunderous blows from sources in different parts of the THE READERS' DIGEST article of some weeks back was one of the strongest yet published revealing the deadly effect of tobacco on human It quoted testimony from British health ANOTHER THIS TIME from I was in a recent issue of BUSINESS giving much detail with picture pertaining to new studies made THE HEADING OF THIS article The Case A sub-heading were Another can lead to death from heart cancer and many chronic ITS FIRST PARAGRAPH new evidence of the effect of tobacco on the human lung was laid before last week's annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in doctors all over the hall could be seen stubbing out and slipping pipes into their THE REPORT IN BUSINESS WEEK is so striking and potent that it is indeed frightening to anyone using the IT SHOWED IN DETAIL not only how tobacco affects the lung and brings about but how it causes heart The tobacco smoke cuts down the body's oxygen supply and makes the right side of the heart work harder to bring enough oxygenated blood from the IT SAID THAT IN NEARLY all of the cases the degree of heart damage was correlated with the amount and kind of with pipe and cigar smokers less affected because they do so ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING phases of the study mentioned by BUSINESS WEEK took a turn which surprised even the and which becomes one of the strongest evidences of the lethal effect of tobacco upon the human This was the fact that severely damaged hearts and lungs tended to get better as the smoker stopped NEW STUDIES NOW WILL BE made on this It is felt by the doctors that if damage increases with increased and decreases when smoking is stopped by a the experiment will be the irrefutable evidence which the researchers have been looking E. who is associated with Oscar in this particular study says that although there Ss no doubt in that substances in tobacco smoke set the stage for lung he Is concerned because the leas sensational perhaps more deadly effect of smoke jon the circulatory and respiratory system tends to be ACCORDING TO SIMILAR surveys relating smoking to early the article goes about 13 per cent were due to lung cancer while about half were due to heart failure and circulatory All these causes of death are related to Hammond and Auerbach IT THEN thing is the effect of the physical changes in lung tissue due to The rupture of tiny air sacs produce balloon-like that cut down the supply of oxygen and blood to all parts of the The heart pumps harder to make up for DIFFICULTY IS compounded when the walls of the air sacs or of the tiny blood vessels are thickened because of tobacco the channels become even less and the heart has to pump still SINCE ALL ORGANS of the body require a reduction of the oxygen supply in the blood may cause failure in any of many impaired Hammond says this is how smoking may increase the fatality rate among those suffering from any common chronic TIIE TWO DOCTORS carbon monoxide taken into the lungs in tobacco smoke combines more readily with red blood cells than oxygen further depriving the body of oxygen in the At the same time nicotine is stimulating the heart to beat faster and also is constricting the blood The cumulative load is too much for the |