Medicine: Tobacco Smoking

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The American Medical Association published in its Journal last week an analysis of the nicotine content of certain specific brands of pipe, cigar and cigaret tobaccos.

Nicotine — Pipe, Cigar & Cigaret Tobaccos. To verify the claims of "denicotinized" tobacco manufacturers the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment made quantitative chemical tests for the actual nicotine content of certain treated and untreated brands. The percentage :

PIPE TOBACCOS

Blue Boar 1.45 Lucky Strike Plug 1.76

Craven Mixture 2.84 Old English Curve Cut 1.94

Gilbert's Mixture 2.09

Hudson's Bay Imp. Mixture 1.95 Prince Albert 1.82

Tuxedo 2.22

DENICOTINIZED PIPE TOBACCOS

Dormy (Cestrada)2.26 O-Nic-O 0.97 Carl Henry 0.98 Sackett 0.98

CIGARS

Judges Cave 1.80 Partagas, Habana 1.38

King Perfectos 0.91 Reyes de Espana 1.16

Knickerbocker (Osterweis) 1.76

DENICOTINIZED CIGARS

Girard 1.54 Sackett 0.67

Carl Henry 0.74 Sano 0.87

CIGARETS

Benson and Hedges 1.26 Murad 1.52

Camel 2.21 Old Gold 2.17

Capstan Navy Cut 2.30 Omar 1.98

Chesterfield 2.53 Pall Mall 1.38

Egyptian Deities 1.28 Philip Morris 1.44

Fatima 2.79 Piedmont 3.11

Helmar 1.56 Rameses II 1.73

Lucky Strike 1.88 Richmond Straight Cuts 2.79

Marlboro 1.94

Melachrino 1.31 Sweet Caporal 2.45

Mogul 1.48 Tareyton 1.75

DENICOTINIZED CIGARETS

Cestrada, Virginia 2.10 Sackett 1.03

Carl Henry 0.95 Sano 0.79

Lord Nestor 0.92 Dormy Blue Rib. Turk 1.19

O-Nic-O 0.94

Clinical Study.

Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk.