The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21
ARE YOU SURE YOU HAVE
 THE HARIT9

LAASA1 \ VO 0OAeAS OO AAFA G
 THE HABIT?
 In the past decade my flock of pipes has had an accretion of some sixty-odd specimens presented by we'll wishers. But with all my pipes I have contrived to keep the habit in control.
 Now may I offer some recom- InendationS, rules or advice in fer ereice to smoking and health? I shall not even avail myself of the familiar "do as I say, not as do,' because I honestly believe you will suffer no serious injury if you do as l do.
 I never smoked until I was twenty-six years old and l tok it up then because our pastor, an extra ordinarily pleasant man, semeed to derive great contentment from his smoking when he dropped in of an evening.
 To my way of thinking it is de- plorable for any person who is not self-supporting to indulge in the luxury of smoking.
 If I had my way it would be a grave crime for any person under twenty-one years of age to be caught with tobacco in his or her possession, and graver crime for any one to be caught giving or sell ing tobacco to a person under twenty -one years of age. believe the use of tobacco is invariably deleterious to person under twenty-one years of age, physically, physiologically and morally.
 It is nothing less than hoggish- ness to impose the odor or the ac- tual illness which tobacco smoke causes some persons on any group or gathering of people who may not like 1t. It is hoggishness to begin smoking before a meal or in the course of a meal. It is especially injurious to health to smoke before breakfast in the morning. The smoker who is not victim of the habit may enjoy smoking as well or more without 'inhaling."
 The greatest enjoyment one can get from smoking is to save it until the days work is done and the eve ming meal finished, and the hour for relaxation comes.
 When a feminine smoker be- comes careless about disposal of her ashes and butts it is painfully evident that the habit has her.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Freight Prepaid
 You will oblige by sending to the dress below your pamphlet "In- structions for Taking an Iodine Ration" (Mrs. L. H. M0
 Answer-I'm sorry, Ma'am, but that is against the rules. We can- not reply to postcards. Inclose with your request a stamped en- velope bearing your address. I spell it IODIN RATION, though your spelling of iodine is all right in general. Iodin is the way iodine is pronounced. Why drag around the finale e just because it was fashionable long ago?
 Prescription
 Drugstore that compounded your prescription for athletes foot la- belled it Number so and so. It was great help for several of us. Later when we got a refill. it no longer bears your name, but the druggist claims 1t as his own and refuses to give a copy of the prescription.
 (Mrs. S. L. Po
 Answer-It was not my prescrip- tion. merely gave a recipe for more or less standard remedy for foot itch = Whitfield's ointment. Pamphlet op foot itch givese the recipe-for copy send stamped en- velope bearing your address. Any druggist can mix it and call 1t his own. No druggist has a right to pretend it is my prescription. No druggist is authorized to use my name in any circumstance.
 X-ray Treatment
 Advised to have tumor treated by X-ray. Understand X-ray treat