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As the consequences of acquiring the smoking habit have
unfortunately proved to be too remote a possibility to be taken
seriously by gullible youngsters, it cannot be right to continue to
allow Tobacco Companies to do their utmost to entice the rising
generation into an addiction to tobacco.
BRONCHITIS
30,000 deaths per annum are ascribed in England and Wales
to Bronchitis. There are two main factors in the causation of this
great public health problem, namely cigarette smoking and atmospheric
pollution. While the private individual can do little about
atmospheric pollution except to urge vociferously their Local
Authorities to show more energy in implementing the provisions of
the Clean Air Act, there is one thing cigarette smokers can do about
smoking—they can give it up. Cigarette smoking is not only associated
with a high mortality from Lung Cancer, it also gives rise to
Cardio Vascular Disease, including Coronary Thrombosis, and is
incriminated as one of the two principle causes of Bronchitis, a
disease which killed 106 of our citizens during 1962.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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