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Noun- The effect of the excessive use of tobacco.

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  • If the two first-mentioned weapons are effectively used, there will be an increasing proportion of nonsmokers and not-yet-smokers who will give attentive ear to proof that...
  • Parents: and school hygiene, 3; interested by examinations, 41; should coöperate with physician, 279; interested in school examinations, 297; need health reports, 310;...
  • Industrial insurance companies and mutual benefit societies are doing much to educate laborers regarding the effect upon vitality of certain dangerous and unsanitary trades,...
  • York City examines all applicants for employment, as to age, weight, height, keenness of vision, hearing, color perception, lungs, hearts, arteries, alcoholism, and...
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