THE CHINA' MAIL," SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1957.
D. COMPTON - JAMES
tells you how easy it all is- JUST
GIVE UP SMOKING
T'S so easy to give up smoking and yet so hard, depend- I'
ing entirely on the frame of mind in which you up proach the task. Three years ago I was in hospital, next to a patient who had lung cancer. He experienced no difficulty in giving up smoking, in fact he broke himself of the habit gindly und willingly-but too late. His example did not convince me. I was a pipe smoker so I didn't have to worry about lang cancer, and I wasn't convinced that pipe-smoking wis really bad for the heart, So I didn't give up smoking then.
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off-key, anything that increases nervous tension, seems to pro- duce a desire to smoke-not that it is necessary on unconquerable desire, but obviously it is best to nvold nervous tension, Alcohol is another thing to nvold, two sherries might not make any difference, but after three or four the edge of resolution is con- siderably dulled,
One or
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great danger after one year
10 is that you feel at and confident that you are sure you can now enjoy a mnoke without becoming a slave to the habit, So you can, for quite a while, but eventually you will be back at the point you started from, und this time Jess likely tr succeed because you have a te- cord of fallure behind you. During the first three days of Should one
tobacco have abstinence, the crucial period. available while giving up the Today I am convinced and always did appeal to me was a you may need to devote quite
habli? I would say yes! Atter once convinced I was able to noted personal dislike of in- lot of your attention to checking
all with off-licences upening Είνα
the profits with up smoking
the creasing
the suggestions that arise in your when tobacco shops cloce I was not only tobacco barons. I always felt mind. These suggestiona COT greatest of cast, convinced but frightened, and if that such people have an edgo come through any of the five can always buy tobacco, so one thero is an element of fear in- over ordinary traders because senses, a whiff of smoke when might as well take the stronger
The product that acems you piss someone in the street, cigarettes in the house.
of keeping tobacco Cr volved, then it becomes qulie n they sell a simple matter to give up smok- to be habit-forming. So if you the sight of your favourlie PD not a believer in dramatic de-
This is not the first time like to get all het up about when you open a drawer to look
giving your hard-earned money for a screwdriver, a break in structions, burnings of pipes,
I remember unce to nebody else in exchange for a dozen draw and a pile of your work-a point at which you and so DE,
have to stop and think, a point being perversely annoyed be
I could at which a few days ago you cause.
not get
any would have lit a cigarette: on all cigarettes. All the shops, in- these occasions and many more, cluding the off-licences were many times a day, your mind closed: in fact they were just will automatically transmit the tuming out of the pubs. For nessage, "I could do wwith the devil of I stopped any smoke."
car and asked a small group Peronally I always make a standing outside
u pub (ur П verbal reply-sotto voice if I am cigarette. They gave me one, not alon tu these mental and that started me off smoking To be fair to the tobacco suggestions, my current formula again, barons, I have always found it being. No, thanks, I want to dieu to identify the precise
live way in whleh tobacco is habli
Ing.
I have been afraid. Two attacks of angina pectoris have slighten- ed me, and now I feel I can't afford to take any risks,
From previous experience, however, I know that there are Various ways of giving Up smoking. The easiest one is the non-heroic method of utilising a malaise, wailing until you have a bad cold or Bu when you don't feel like smoking anyway The majority of people who bave given
up smoking used this method, 2141 motter what they now tell you about will- power. The drawback to this method is that you may have to wait for years before you carr put it into operation.
If you desire to stop smoking now then you need an angle. and unices your interest in the angle is greater than your in terest in smoking, then you are not kely to succted. Different people need different
6.6 th, you may find this to food an angle na any.
for ash
Once I gave up smoking 12 months because some from my pipe burned a hole in my suit-n brand-new suit not even paid for. If you can get really angry about some aspect of smoking, you can give It up more easily.
Sheer perversity cause the
forming, Whenever I have breakdown of some no-emoking
to appear, have
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given up smoking, I have never resolutions. We are all pervera? been able to put my anger on le some extené: we all tend to any craving, provided I kept take delight in dedrag some quiet and avolded stimulants thing that Out mind ar we should such an tea and coffee in excess, conscience tells us
not do, If your nature is specially perverse
will you have to watch this point, but you may be able to endist per versity on your own dde. I find this quite easy to do when I am watching tobacco advertise- nents on ITV. To hell with you!" is my mental reply to ilcir suggestions.
Fly
old
the
I have waited for the craving gone forth to mect it half-way, but there - WAS angles one, absolutely nothing at all Saving money is not an angle in the way of nervo protest.
Even
friend that appeals particularly to me, but it may very well appeal to premogastric nerve, who often you. The health angle appeals tells lies to me that I am hun- strongly to me now, but it gry, never sends me any mes- meant nothing to me when I sarea of tobacco hunger. was smoking 20 cigarettes a day And yet there is something! at the age of twenty. Actually A madden furry of telephone many people can consume calls, getting into a tangle when tobacco at this rate for 40 years parking your car, a few words before any Berious health with your
wife
он secretary, affects develop. An angle that somebody persistently whistling
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HOW
QUESTIONS
ON TELEPHONE TAPPING
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MEN
CODYTIGNE I
all cokel
London Igreja Serving
THEY DO IT
AND WHY
by SETON
FAIRFIELD
An American expert
on police intelligence
services who is now studying British police methods
PEOPLE
NEVER KNOW THEY'RE BEING 'TAPPED'
PROBABLY not a single
But anyone who acquires day passes in Britain a little bit of know-how can now without somebody's become an unknown caves telephone being tapped. dropper.
Statle, serntching sounds, clicks on the line, are caused by sure seepage, corrosion, and faulty contact points.
A professionally installed wire
FEAR
in the land of the lotus
Srinagar,
WHAT is life like today
the beautiful land
[of Kashmir? These are the words of Begum Abdul- lah:-
"People in the gaols are much better off than we who are out, Words cannot describe the fear under which we live.
"We are prisoners
Just
KD
ver
much as those in the gools, but we are also at the mercy, day after day of the rufflane
Government puppet
pays to sub- missiveness."
Despite the present out- And. anyone who has top is no more capable of making terrorise our people into cry against officially op- ever worked in a military noise than the human ear. proved tapping, that is not signals
unit
or
as 3
One of New York's top experts the only source of this work. telephone linesman knows once took me to the exact spot
all the secrets.
where he had installed a wire I know of at least two re-
tap and challenged me to find cent divorce actions int All the necessary equip- 11. which private detectives in- ment . . . wire, condenser, stalled taps for wealthy amplifier, loudspeaker, is in clients.
any car radio,
I
THE VOICES
HAVE seen a transcript from a police wire-tap
that included the words of:-
ณ
a
Should you have trouble finding a lapper, almost any private detective worth hit
salt will arrange it for a fee.
yard and security men have it As for official taps, Scotland
Czsy compared with their counterparts in America,
Iniled,
for
3 renson:-
one
WEAPON
The begum knows about guol. mountain- She has visited the top Kud Gaol, where 300 men of the Indian pollee guard her bund, depored Premier Sheik Mohamed Abdullah.
He has been in gaol without simple trial for nearly four years, after Nehru ordered a coup d'etat because
to
INSTEAD of using wires
connect the tapped line to his away, he had used PAINT, recording machine two rooms
The paint contained a high concentration of powderized
he resisted Indian interference and demanded in- dependence.
Machine-gun posta
and wire entanglements surround the gaol. For Abdullah is still the darling of Kashmir.
The Amorlean telephone silver, the best-known conductor have had secret midnight meet- system is run by a private con- of electricity. cern whose profits depend on the goodwill of subscribers.
In the three days since I slipped into Kashmir unnoticed, because Delhi authorities bu
leved me to be in Ceylon, I
Ings with many opponents of necession to India and made
in inquiries
whore villages risings have been suppressed with Hungarinn-etyle ruthless-
The Indian Army has been reinforced by 10,000 men sinco last January's Security Council debate. Under ite umbrella seven police organisations are chance
The victim, his wife, two grocery store assistants, a tobacconist, doctor,
He lud connceled his tape re- corder with a tiny water colour banker, an insurance agent, and
Even than twenty more
15 the F.B.I.
often brush.
There were no wires to
a strond cont of eas friends of the victim or his refused tapping facilities and dieteet, and
has to make its own arrange- paint, matching the colour of wife. Even a total stranger menta.
the room's base-board, had who had gone in from the
eliminated the last trace of the street to report an accident. All people like you.
Well
how do they get away with it on such a scale?
If wire-tapping were EL complex art, then at least it would be restricted to ex- perts.
request, but convenient listening posts,
In Britain the G.P.0. net tap. anly instals wire-tops at official
also rigs them to Insidious? Yes, But science busily preventing any
today hay reduced wire tap-of new risings--but trouble. still ping to the level of just one dares up. weapon in an entire electronic arsenal.
ONCE
NO SOUND
This arsenal Je now at the
a tap is installed on service ol the Government your line, you have no agent and the private snooper shares of discovering it despito alike,
no matter how the claim of people who say malicious their motives may be,
they can tell."
they go undetected,
SOVIET DIGS IN
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
NEAR that Russia Intends
year of scientific explora- tion to claim Antarctic ter- ritory belonging to Australia has been strengthened by a surprise Soviot move.
Russian explorers, who were allowed to act up bases in the Australian Antarctic, have ap- plied to extend their stay for a further year, said an Australian Goverment official the other night.
Opposed
VETRARY DEPESHENCES
ANTARCTICA
BASE
SO WELLING
ANTARCTIC BASES
Cenmormantth
#%* Ocherno
MIRN
BASE.
"Peace Pay" Rupee a day
There were mass arrests Just
the other day in the village of Anantnag, 30 miles from Srinagar, Binds of ruflens, kumployed in puppot Premier Baleshi's Peace Brigade at a rupeo (1580) a day, round up known supporters of the Plebiscite Front
the
Police arrive to arrest victims for disturbing the peace. Then they are often handed over to a sinister group known
the
Special Staf.
SU
One of the few opponents of Nehru I have seen openly was 54-year-old Ghulam Hamdani secretary-general of the Dër secuted but persistent. Plebiscite Front,
班
He told me there are 700 criminal cases pending involving more than 1,000 of his members, One of them
the former Speaker of the National As sembly, accused of stealing a shawl from a man in the street. Hamidont shrugged: “Every day Avo or six more are urrested, respectable citizens charged with stealing from rumäng in the street. Maybe tomorrow it will be my turn.”
o told me the Plebiscfin. Front has tried to smuggle uti Commonwealth appeal to the Primo Misiriers' conferENCO IXL
It disclaima Nehru's right to
The Soviet scientists are al- ed to got a further year's work London. The British and Australian ready calling Queen Mary Land out of it. Government have opposed the the Pravda Coast-a-fact censor- Only the Belgians supported hold 40,000,000 Moslems in Soviet application. Nevertheless, ed from reports, sont back to
the Russian let's-stey-longer India hostage for holding on to It has gone forward to the 4swspapers by members of the proposal. South Afrles, Chle, Kashmir, and calls for self- International Council of Scient British Amaretic expedition. France, and Japan supported determination through a plebis-
the
under
suspices.
Unione,
British and Ausrollati elto EnBoring
Russia's application for extra the sclentine year which begun yes- time was put forward
at the opposition to any extension. terday.
“American ́scientists', supported Antaretle Conference of the
United
Nations
But the pitiful things the conddent hope the people at this remote Himalay next valley
The Australians suspect that International Geophysical Year the Rusland, but could get no the Jussians' would use tho
held in Paris orinight ago backing from the US. Govern extra, timme ta. penetrato un
have that the Unlica/Nations before the year bad oven begun, ment explosed areas. They could ther
Sir David Brunt, Bellatro will rescue them from the yoke lay, claim to turno, grega bersive Russia does not recognias Atis tralian soveralgirly over Antare tica.
The Huadani argued that as presentative, mald Dellain will of Nehru they bad poured as much money pull out of the International Finan
into their bene') called airny chome at the end of 1958 bow Stephen
("Pesca") dheý should be allows cause of the cost.
Harper