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A word for the middle-aged smoker: Statistics show that your safety
chances improve with every year you give up smoking. Long-term
comfort: With all the research going on now there is a probability that
sooner or later the disease-causing factors in smoking will be identified
and eliminated. The younger person therefore if he gives up now
because it is dangerous, can comfort himself with the thought that in
one, five, perhaps ten years' time, he will be able to smoke without
danger to himself, other than to his pocket."
There is, however, a small but increasing attitude among the
public of the desirability of doing something about this problem as is
evidenced by a growing disapproval of smoking in public places, a
greater demand for non-smoking compartments in trains and a general
awareness that smoking at least of cigarettes is a bad habit and not an
aspect of manliness. It is to be hoped that this tendency will continue
and the time will not be too far distant when it will have a major effect
in reducing the amount of tobacco consumed.