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A smoker's life analysed

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

TUGH FRASER, the London Sents draper who chain- LL smokes 70 cigarettes a day, is a millionaire, so this colossal. consumption of tobacco makes no serious in- roud into his income.

But what inroads does it make into his health? That is the question which smokers and non-smokers alike were asking,

The odds are that so long as Mr Fraser has no ambition to climb Mount Everest, fly IL night fighter, or compete in the Olymple Games, his smoking wal not hurt him at all,

In fact, by keeping him silm, It may do film more good than harzn. C

Nicotine depresses the appetite to such an extent that some people whe

Lave elgarelles when the price went up bad to start smoking again 10 save money. They were putting on so much weight that they would have had to replace their clothes.

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This is what happens to Mr Fraser's system when Be has Anished his first cigarette of the day:-

His heart rate Is probably stepped up by, about eight beats a minute, his arteries are ran- Mirieled to such an extent that his blood pressure is raised by

15 percent. Ils mouth is moist from the increased saliva.

Credit side

THESE changes are less than

those produced by Bentle exerelse or slight emotional disturbance. And on the crerlit side, Mr Fruser's nerves. are

better have put forward a fact?

The real strength of this theory until there is elintest and experimental evidence to Support It is best illustrated by the behaviour of thore we qualified to judge it. Men rech as Sir Clement Price Thomas the famous chest surgeon who operated on the late King.

Walle Feeturing 10 11:1 students on lung disandera e chain-smokes ceaselessly just like Mr Fraser.

CHANCE AUSS

"HAVEN'T YOU GUYS SEEN THE WEATHER REPORT?”

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian.

The Electronic Brain

THIS ENGINE IS WORKING OUT PROBLEMS OF BRITAIN'S DEFENCE

By Alan Barker

-N the red brick buibiina "memory" capable of storing "It works on

a simple spread amont flower- a quarter of a million digits principle," Mr Davies ex- beds and treg in at a time.

plained. "I really made it for the laboratory children's Unfortunately it

calmed considerable advant-corner of Bushy Park, Tid- age to a high-pressure business dington, Britain's leading Mr T. Vickers, who helped party. man-and his store of immed-physicists have built com- with the construction of the usually beats me." ereased because the nicotine has plex machines to "Think: "ACE “memory”, told me caused his liver to shed some out" the answers to many that

ately available energy 4s in-

By the time Mr Fraser is lighting his tenth cigarette or ¿ thousand even his 70th his heart will be

seienthie

many large private. One-time home of the

of its supplies of blood sugar, of the country's basic organisations may for the Duke of Clarence (later

scientific problems.

electronic brain to solve William IV) and Mrs Jordan, - statistical problems whic!: 200-year-old Bushy House beating no faster and his blood Workers at the National would not justify the time was given by the Crown in

for the and expense of the linga 1500

National pressure will be no higher. The Physical Laboratory wee body of a seasoned smoker is finding a down-to-earth une

clerical labour ofherwise l'hysical Laboratory. SU ellielent In destroying for the nicoline that

theories of th needed to solve them. the drug can never build up to a dangerous scientist and his machines. To break down the barrier between theory and practice

concentration.

So little

TICOTINE is one of the most powerful and rapid poisons known, but the amount which is absorbed by even WN in- veterate inhaler is minute.

About

35 percent of The nicoline is destroyed clgarette's burning further 35

One whiff

was the task set the labora-

The

ACE just about earns it on," Mr Vickers

FROM TORONTO

said, “A problem which took Original work was to be standardisation and tory at its official opening in and a half days to work the 1902 by the Prince of Wales. complimeters was finished the testing of materials and ant elsewhere with ordinary verification of instruments, in three minutes on the, determination of physical ACE."

Constants. Under the diree- tion of the Royal Society

3-MINUTE JOB

Pride of the laboratory's

*

If it gets a "beadache" until 1918, the 55-acre Ted-

The men who buld these Director of the Inbora-

MRS JOSEPHINE SNOOK, 22, of Kingston, works on the ACE-the-electronic brain or automatic computing engine.

the wind-

at the mathematical division (and there is a radar screen which dington laboratory is now of the Up. A possibly of the whole place) can be plugged into the mass the largest branch the sidestream of smoke-Eightrain"

percent is lost Inis The ACR an electronic of valves and wires to show Department of Scientific and percent remains In the stub.

or automatic con- Where-a-bitch-has occurred-Industrini-Itescurch. Only 22

percent enters the puting engine. Looking mouth, and

of this less than rather like an automatic thinking machines live for lory is geo-physics expert taken to help in the design the possibilities of conting half 19 absorbed by the telephone switchboard, the lungs even if inhaled.

is working out the their work and few have Dr Edward C. Bullard, af of the proposed bridge over glass with an electrically | ACE

lime Professor problema of the

of the River Severn. relaxations away from it. Mr ene Defenen

conducting film. This enables Ministries at the rate of a Donald Davies, who worked Physics at the University

More recent work has a low-voltage current to be the building of the of Toronto. Married, with been supervised by Mr D. passed across D11 million digits a second.

Are, is fond of noughts and four daughters, the 46- H. Williams on the, scale screen, keeping it clear of NOT everyone could smoke 70

He has built a year-old, Gft.-tall director models of arches to, he condensation. cigarettes a day without } Mrs Josephine Spook, 22. effect. Tolerance of tobacco of Kingston, feeds the machine that can play the lives with his family in built in The Muil for the

muchine with specially- game with him in his spare Bushy House.

Coronation, "We have sub- signs are tested by running scale In the ship division, hull de- Some people are so allergie punched cards. It has a time.

jected the model to winds

models along a 200 yards, 14 feet CORONATION TEST the equivalent of 60 miles deep, indoor water tank. Made

an hour," he said.

the models can bo Since 1902 wind tunnels

after use. They Problems of sound, in the melted down have been in use at Ted- construction of concert halls usually measure about 30 feet

in length and weigh dington. Through these and the muking of micro- tunnels winds are made by phones and deaf aids,

up to a ton, giant fans or compressed dealt with by the labora air plants. Apart from tory's acoustics section. SHE SAILS

varies enormously.

to it that one whiff gives them asthmatic attack. But the

B

sensitive system soon lets the smoker know that he is ex- ceeding his unit by giving him blurred vision, trembling hands. and almost complete loss appetite.

of

Would Mr Fraser have better chance of avoiding any Il-effects if he smoked a plye instead? I doubt it.

Tests at Oxford University have proved that the pipe mañ who does not inhale absorbs as much nicotine through his outh and throat membranes as a cigarette smoker inho.cr absorbs through the lungs.

Ceasing to inhale would make Bille difference either. The puffer-outer aborba only 30 percent less than the inhalor's total,'

What about the theory that excessive smoking causes lung carcinoma a theory which some doctors who should know

JOHNNY HAZARD

DESTINA...I 'WOULD WILLINGLY DIE FOR YOU !...IF ONLY YOU WOULD ASSURE ME THAT YOU

ARE NOT........NOT..

crosges,

MR D. H. WILLIAMS tests a scale model of a corona- tion arch in the wind tunnel. The arch has been sub- jected to winds equivalent to 60 miles an hour.

NOT 1450 YEARS OLD? BUT I AM, DEAR BOY.... AND THAT IS WHY I NEED

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(with wind speeds equal- A mobile laboratory has ling 1.8 times the speed of worked on problems of air- ing tank all day is Miss Jean Sailing up and down the test- sound) the tunnels are used craft noise. It was called in Keay, 25, of Kingston, a record- for experiments with wind to make tests in connection ing and analytical scientific pressures 011 buildings, with the proposed South assistant. As I called on the smoke abatement from Bank helicopter site.

miniatures pea with her, in the carriage hit tows the model

chimneys, air resistance on In the photometry divi-ips, Miss Keay told me that cars and trains, and ven- stan, Mr J. S.. Preston has her hobby is acting. "But I like tilation systems.

mado a discovery that may to spend week-ends boating on mean the end of Iced-up the Thames in the summer?” One of the recent inves- windscreens in aircraft und tigations was to discover cars through frozen

Dr N.P. Allen, of the metal- con- lurgy division, is working on tho causes of dangerous oscilla densation. Experiments on practical applications of a new tions of suspension bridges. photographic exposure metal-titanium. He saya itg This resourch WRS under meters led Mr Preston to aboys can have the hardness of and the fightness of oluminium-an ideal combina tion for aircraft engines.

By Frank Robbins

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