LUNG VOLUME IN SMOKERS AND NONSMOKERS
Authors: H Blackburn, J Brozek, H L Taylor
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1959)

Article1 July 1959LUNG VOLUME IN SMOKERS AND NONSMOKERSHENRY BLACKBURN, M.D., JOSEF BROŽEK, Ph.D., HENRY L. TAYLOR, Ph.D.HENRY BLACKBURN, M.D., JOSEF BROŽEK, Ph.D., HENRY L. TAYLOR, Ph.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-51-1-68 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTobacco smoking has long been suspected as an etiologic factor in respiratory symptoms and chronic bronchopulmonary disease, largely on the basis of clinical impression. Recent evidence tends to confirm this impression. Auerbach and associates reported greater prevalence of pathologic changes in the bronchial mucosa of smokers than in nonsmokers.1Eich, Gilbert and Auchincloss found increased airway resistance as an acute effect of cigarette smoking in a few patients with pulmonary emphysema. 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MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Minneapolis, Minnesota*Received for publication August 4, 1958.From the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.†With the technical assistance of WALTER CARLSON, B.S.This study was supported in part by grants from the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, New York, N. Y., and the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, Grant H 10 (C 12).Requests for reprints should be addressed to Henry Blackburn, M.D., Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 14, Minnesota. 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