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increase their symptoms by the large amount of tobacco which they persist in
smoking. I do my best to dissuade them from this.
I am still amassing data with regard to smokers between the ages of 13 and 25
years. My present impression is that teenage smokers are not so numerous as the
popular press would have us believe. Often in the early twenties smoking increases
considerably during the tensions of this period of life, by which time a habit may
be formed which is almost impossible to break in later life without a considerable
exercise of will power. How much better it would be if these heavy smokers did
not start smoking at all, but before this could happen I feel that civilised life must
find better and healthier outlets for its young people than at the present time. Some
individuals seem to smoke to show off that they have attained adult years, but in
my view they would be better able to prove this by mature behaviour in other ways.
MASS RADIOGRAPHY UNIT
I am indebted to Dr. J. M. Morgan, the director of the unit, for information of work
done in the Borough during 1971, on which the following tables are based:—