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~~' ,'tl 't _.l ~ ~~,et•i y .. .. 1 , .. , + ~~`'i v:. J'. Cowtents on article by Esther Howard entitled, "Smoking." Medical Library t • ^ ti ~..4"r + ~ f . a i `a~ ~ , ~ t 1 f r .. . . ~ ~w ~l+ ti' ~.. Bookshelf; South Dakota Jo=mal of Medicine, Vol. 15, 2a6es 225-225, June 1962, quoted in f:urrent Digest, Vol. VII, NO. ~8, page 24,August 1962: x..- .,~r ,. . . .. . ,. 'i' . . .. ?.'4'~', , . , ... . . ,.. vR ` ~'S .~~~~~i., ',•~~~'~+ k~~yzkyti ~ Although this incli.vidual is probably not qvalii'ied as much of an expert, the statement is of interest that "Smoking has some origins in i:,. . . ,.. . S . .., personality and plysiologic characteristics. %hese may have as much i 1, r _~• ,, ~ : , ~rk r. ,right to a place in the etiology of the disease as the tobacco smoke 1 '.... .. ~ . . ~ ''. I y . ,. . . ingestion itself." 7he references to the articles by L~rsenck (1960)., Snegireff (1954), ,.. ,,. Seltzer (1959) and Heath (1958) should be consulted in connection with ,' ,., , . _ . , , . • °.., .:.i', y . ,: ,. ; a pme hypo is that people tend tosmoke because of the develo nt of the thes y r r „ ~ ..~ , .. d may certain constitutional or other differences and these differences explain the diseases which they get rather than the smoking per se. I will check into the articles mentioned.