The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-05
SMOKING AND CONDITIONED REtLExEs


 Well, since last year I've changed for better or worse 1 dunno, but anyway don't mind seing a woman smoking in 8 restaurant or other public place any more than do seeing a man smoke in public, now. year or two ago did mind. Even yet, feel sorry for anybody who has to have smoke before he or she can enjoy eating or digestng meal That must be sad form of slavery to be subject to. like my pipe I like nearly all of my S7 pipes I enjoy 'em most when I 'em tenn perately. Least when I light one right in the middle of the day If you want to make me mad right down. to the ground or up to the | ceiling just offer me pipeful of your favorite | mixture even my own when I'm about to sit down to something to eat, or while am attacking it.
 With some persons probably smoke after a good meal soothes nervous tension (which means it dulls the natural desire or appetite just sit around without becoming too restless) increases the digestive secretions and allays the appetite for more food or sweets But smoke before the meal or in the early stage of the meal tends to impair the appetite and in hibit or diminish the normal or natural stim- uli to the various digestive processes, thus producing various symptoms of "dyspepsia' | If you regularly smoke before. in the course | of, or after a meal you soon set up condi- | toned reflex, so that your digestive processes | simply cannot be carried out normally without | the customary indulgence. Some smokers de- velop conditioned refexes in competitor with | smoking which render them helpless to carry
 
 | out the essential smoke. Some have to have a | smoke as an aid to even such primitive or nat ural functions as sleeping or the action of the | bowels.
 | or partial blindness. the cigar smokers cancer | of throat pseudo-angina pectoris and high | blood pressure, and the cigaret smokers heart | burn, duodenal ulcer complex and thrombo- | angiitis oblterans are good wholesome req sons for temperance in tobacco indulgence.
 Athletes have learned that tobacco is bad medicine for wind speed and endurance. | Don't mix smoking with your work, play or eating.
 | Don't let the craving grow you so that you have to indulge it at any particular time Q conditioned reflex.
 | question which every user of tobacco Have the habit has the habit got me?' The most satisfying answer to this question is one weekly Smokeless Day. or at least one such Smokeless Day each month. Just to make sure you've still got the habit.
 | Heaven forfend the country from the neur- otic who smokes for the sake Of nonchalance or something to do with his hands. Such ad- | diets are useful only as automatic machine | tenders. factory wage slaves. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Hemophilia in Family
 We have the hcmOphilia in our family. I know 1t Is inherited through the females only. But before we knew that, my older sister mar ried and has had six children, two of them I have not married. My younger sister married but has not ventured to have children. Now contemplate marriage. My prospective husband knows all the facts. Should I marry and be operated on so that I'll never bear any chii- dren? Miss G. F)
 | Answer-As rule with occasional excep- | tions, only the female children inherit the | "bleeder" state, and they usually carry it in a latent way that is, they are usually not them | selves "beeders," but their male children are likely to be "bleeders." Sometimes, of course. a female child is an active "bleeder." No, do not believe you would be justified in having an | CT you should marry. or whether the man should marry you knowing the facts, is not a | health question, and leave 1t for some doctor l of the soul to answer. | DeodOrant
 as I am embarrassed by OdOr from pcrspra. ton. GA. W.)
 l Answer-Wash and dry the skin and then mop or sponge with a solution of one-half ounce aluminium chloride in three ounces of water. Let this dry well before dressing. Such an application once a day for three or four days in succession will usually correct the trouble for weeks, and the same lotion may be used again whenever needed. Humorous High School Biology Mir -, biology teacher in - higi school ask his class to believe that when food passes from the small tO the large intestine ' passes the appendix, and some particles fni through the opening into the top of the nppen. dix and SO the appendix becomes infected O' unframed. q. s.l
 Answer--Absurd. But then. isn't most high ! school "biolosy"7