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Does blood similarly cease to flow in the capillaries of the brain when one smokes? Can this explain the light-headedness which Drs. Wright and Moffat's subjects experienced after the first cigaret...
Some of the heaviest of smokers, during the experiments, occasionally grew deathly sick, at times fainted. Drs. Wright and Moffat reasoned that ordinarily those smokers took only a few puffs of a cigaret. before throwing it away, whereas in the experiments, they continued smoking until almost all the cigaret was gone. Concluded Drs. Wright and Moffat...
...least in many individuals, habitual smoking does not result in the development of an immunity to the toxins of cigaret smoke. It would seem that experience teaches one, often subconsciously, to control one's smoking so that the effects are kept at a submanifest point. To be concrete, one does not take a puff from a cigaret if certain effects of the one preceding are manifest. Similarly, a second cigaret is not smoked until the effects of the preceding one have worn off. . . . The length of time for these effects to wear off varies greatly in different individuals...
According to Researchers Wright & Moffat, the desire for "another smoke" is due to: "1) the wish for the soothing, quieting effect of the smoke, which increases with the cessation of the effects of the previous cigaret, and 2) the nervous desire to do something with one's hands...
...Although not definitely proved, the evidence seems to indicate that nicotine is at least one of the toxic factors [in cigaret smoking] and that carbon monoxide and the products of the cigaret papers may be eliminated as offending mediums." Other suspect factors: "Ammonia, pyridine and pyridine derivative, cyanides and sulpho-cyanides, arsenic...