Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1902 — Tobacco Smoke as Disease Preventive. [ARTICLE]

Tobacco Smoke as Disease Preventive.

Added now to the joys of tobacco is the knowledge that smoking may prevent some diseases. Dr. Dumon has studied the action of tobacco smoke iq>on the various organisms found in the cavity of the tfiouth, and has found that, while it has no effect upon typhoid fever germa or tetanus (lockjaw). It greatly retards the growth of the bacilli of influenza, ot diphtheria and of consumption.