The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-01
MANY ENGLISH WOMEN
CIGARET SMOKERS
Amazing Spread Of the Smoking
Habit in Great Britain in
Recent Years.
PRESCRIBED BY THE PHYSICIANS
english Doctors Find Tobacco Emcacioas
In Certain Nervous Troubles-valse
Of Tobacco In War Is Gener-
ally Recognized.

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ally Recognized.
change has taken place within a few
years in the prevailing opinion among
English medical men with regard to,
the use of tobacco. The theory that
moderate smoking Is a vice and al,
ways deleterious long ago disappeared
from the medical profession in Eng
land. There followed q period when
the prevailing view Of English physi-
clans was that the physical and mental
satisfaction which smokers derive.
from pipe, cigar or cigaret practi-,
cally offset the dangers of nicotine,
This opinion has in turn been modi-,
lied until now the average English doc
tor thoroughly approves the use OF to-,
bacco not only harmless but whole
some n.counteracting some OF the,
tendencies OF high pressure modern
life. This attitude of the medical pro-
fession may lave something to do with,
the enormous Increase in the per capi-
ia consumption Of tobacco in England
during recent years, but the true ex-
PLANTATION will be found In the. amaz-
ng spread OF the cigaret habit among
women.
This is n of the burning questions.
OF the hour In this, country. Social ar
guments enter into the discussion as;
much as physical ones, and I do, not
intend to enumerate them. In fact, the.
subject has reached the controversial
stage IN America also, IL n can, be-
lieye the confessions Of American Wis
TORS OF the past two or three seasons,
and 1t would be superfluous for me to
state the case pro and con.
But would the, doctors approve Of;
cigaret smoking by. women generallyas,
The question was suggested the other
day by my noticing the evident repug-.
nance with which a conservative young
English matron consumed an after
dinner cigaret. l asked her if she really
enjoyed tobacco.
1T hate It," she replied frankly, and
then she explained hat her doctor had
commanded her to smoke a cigaret af-
ter dinner and at bedtime. She had
tried everything for, insomnia and
finally her physician prescribed tobac-
co. saying that he had found 1t effica-
etouss in a number of cases.
u do sleep BETTER" she added, "but
l detest tobacco in every form Inc Z
am nc more reconciled to 1t now than.
at first"
But this case hardly suggests the an
swer the medical profession would give
Il SottGt HlQGSLkOL,a = 5IlOulu WOE.
men smoker"
Tobacco. In. War;
The Lancet this week is o%utspoken,
upon the subject Of tobacco's advarb-
tages in campaigning. THE wal in,
South Africa it says, has taught
many things of greater. or less import
anee. Perhaps nothing that It has,
demonstrated has been more marked
than the important part which tobac-
co, plays In the soldiers exist1,ca.
Whether this is to- be reckoned as ri
great fact or a small one, there can be
no doubt about the, truth OF 1t. Yet the
Duke Of Wellington's armies had NO
tobacco worth speaking Of. II they
did not forbid its use, at any rate thu
Iron Dukes officers We're directed to
advise their men strongly against IL.
What a curious contrast withsthe CAM
paigning In South Africa. where
marches and pifvatfons as long and an
stern as any suffered by our great
grandfathers were suffered by our vol
unteers and soldiers OF today with u
grumble only when their smokes
failed them. We have 1t from many
who took part in the forced marches
leading to Pa%ardeberg, to B~loernfon-
tetn, to Pretoria and beyond, that
biscuits d day the only real physicai
content of each twenty-four hours
game with the pipe smoked by the
smouldering embers Of a campfire.
trhis pipe eased The way to s,eep that
might otherwise haye fingered, delayed
by the sheer bodily fatigue and mental
iest.essness caused by prolonged and
monotonous exertton.
4 Real Help.
1T IL difficult. then, to believe that
tobacco is anytaing but n real help to
men who are differing long labers and
receiving little food. and probably the
way in which It helps is by quieting
aerebration--for no one doubts It's sed-
..tfve gu~alitics--and thus allowing
more easily sleep, which Is SO all I'M
portant VIXEN serni-starvation has to
be endured. The cases or acute mem
ials arrangement In the course of cam
tpaigns such as the present are many.
4 There have indeed been many in South
II Africa. Ii would be most profitable
Ii.nde interesting could medical officers
lave taken special note OF the capa-
ttity for a-eep previously evidenced by
fthGee who broke down and also Of
Itf.eir indulgence or non-irdulge1ce in
tobacco. We are inclined to believe
That. Used with due moderation, to-
lbacco liz OF value second only to food
lItse:f VIXEN long priyaticns and exer-
ttons are togbe endured. Two features
Ire to be noted with regard so.sthe
5moktng practiced on active service II
Iis almost entirely In the opeuSair TIT
In Is largely on an empty Atcraacls
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