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ns? Vol. 51 JULY, 1936 No. 7 Notes and Comment By The Editor AS a rule, most physicians advise young folks under twenty-one years of age to abstain from the use of tobacco in any form, particularly cigarette smoking. Physicians also advise every one, regardless of age, against smoking to excess. Since the women and girls have taken up the habit of smoking, physicians are probably asked more frequently to define what is meant by '^excessive smoking." Different doctors have different replies to this question. Quite a number of physicians advise that when a person has to stop in the middle of any active duty to light a cigarette and take a few puffs before going on, or to stop in the middle of a meal to light up and smoke, it may be termed "excessive smoking," which is detrimental to such an individual's health. The editor of the Heai.th Bulletin holds to this view. While he has never used tobacco in any form, he looks on it with a degree of tolerance which the facts justify. He feels, however, that all about the evidences of excessive smoking may be plainly seen. Some time ago at a conference in Washington, attended by a score of health oflBcials from different states, among the number was a woman doctor from a western state. It was a business conference, and many vital questions concerning the health agencies of the states involved were being discussed. The conference lasted about two hours. The editor of the Health Bulletin was in attendance. and he occupied a position around the large conference table directly opposite from this woman physician, an attractive middle-aged woman of apparently fine intellectual capacity, but probably the most "nervous" individual this particular editor has ever looked upon. In the two-hour conference she smoked one cigarette after another, lighting a new one from the stub of a discarded one, and then reached out for more. This evidenced smoking to excess. Such an individual must be a pain even to herself, let alone her family. In the expansion of public health service in North Carolina made possible through funds available through the social security legislation at Washington, the State Board of Health has been able to assist in the employment of several additional nurses. These nurses are to go out and be attached to the counties, either the whole-time health departments or working under direct supervision from this office. Their work is to be that of general public health nurses, but many of them must work almost exclusively with women and children. It has become necessary to send some of these young nurse applicants off for a special course of four months training in an institution located outside the State. An effort was made here to select the most capable and promising young women out of the large group of applicants qualified to take the course. At least one young nurse had to be I
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1936 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-051 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 51 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 3 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1936 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-051-0105 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 51 |
Issue Number | 7 |
Page Number | 3 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | ns? Vol. 51 JULY, 1936 No. 7 Notes and Comment By The Editor AS a rule, most physicians advise young folks under twenty-one years of age to abstain from the use of tobacco in any form, particularly cigarette smoking. Physicians also advise every one, regardless of age, against smoking to excess. Since the women and girls have taken up the habit of smoking, physicians are probably asked more frequently to define what is meant by '^excessive smoking." Different doctors have different replies to this question. Quite a number of physicians advise that when a person has to stop in the middle of any active duty to light a cigarette and take a few puffs before going on, or to stop in the middle of a meal to light up and smoke, it may be termed "excessive smoking" which is detrimental to such an individual's health. The editor of the Heai.th Bulletin holds to this view. While he has never used tobacco in any form, he looks on it with a degree of tolerance which the facts justify. He feels, however, that all about the evidences of excessive smoking may be plainly seen. Some time ago at a conference in Washington, attended by a score of health oflBcials from different states, among the number was a woman doctor from a western state. It was a business conference, and many vital questions concerning the health agencies of the states involved were being discussed. The conference lasted about two hours. The editor of the Health Bulletin was in attendance. and he occupied a position around the large conference table directly opposite from this woman physician, an attractive middle-aged woman of apparently fine intellectual capacity, but probably the most "nervous" individual this particular editor has ever looked upon. In the two-hour conference she smoked one cigarette after another, lighting a new one from the stub of a discarded one, and then reached out for more. This evidenced smoking to excess. Such an individual must be a pain even to herself, let alone her family. In the expansion of public health service in North Carolina made possible through funds available through the social security legislation at Washington, the State Board of Health has been able to assist in the employment of several additional nurses. These nurses are to go out and be attached to the counties, either the whole-time health departments or working under direct supervision from this office. Their work is to be that of general public health nurses, but many of them must work almost exclusively with women and children. It has become necessary to send some of these young nurse applicants off for a special course of four months training in an institution located outside the State. An effort was made here to select the most capable and promising young women out of the large group of applicants qualified to take the course. At least one young nurse had to be I |
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