Lung Cancer and Smoking SIR,-It seems that cigarette smokers adjust the number of cigarettes smokzd to obtain a predetermined dose of nicotine (Dr.M. A. H. Russell and others, 1 December, p. 512).Would it not be much safer (no tar), and much cleaner for non-smokers in the vicinity, to market nicotine inhalers, similar to those used by asthmatics?The price of these could be adjusted so that the Govern- ment need not lose revenue.The nicotine addicts would presumably not be at risk from bronchogenic carcinoma and chronic bronchitis, and there would be no carbon monoxide to contribute to atheroma forma- tion.-Iam, etc.,
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