AJanuary 23 1953
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Friday, January 23, 1953
THE other day I read an article by Drs. Gustavus A. Peters, Louis E. Prickman, Giles A. Koelsche and Haddon M. Carryer, experts on asthma, who said they wished all asthmatics knew that they could give themselves a big break by never smoking.
As they said, the overly sensitive bronchi and nerves in an asthmatic's lung ought to be spared from every irritant, and tobacco smoke can be a bad one. Everyone knows that heavy smokers are constantly coughing. As Dr. Peters and his group at the Mayo Clinic say, the best possible, treatment for asthma may well fail if the person goes on smoking.
