Comparative Study of Smoking Habits of Physicians

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THE need for current data on smoking to serve as a base line for future comparisons is obvious, and the saying, "physician know thyself," applies to this effort.Most of the tobacco today is derived from Nicotiana tabacum, a plant that is native to South America and Mexico. Before Columbus, N. rustica was commonly smoked by the Indians of Eastern North America whereas N. attenuata, N. quadrivolvis and N. trigonophylla were the popular plants with the Indian tribes of the West.Since John Rolfe began tobacco culture in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612, the actual processing of tobacco for smoking . . .

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