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More doctor smoke Camels than any other cigarette (i.ibb.co)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Read a story about a Naval officer who was having his lung problems treated back in the early 1930s.

The treatment was to have a doctor stick a needle in their chest and draw out all the air from the affected lung. That gave the lung a chance to heal.

While the lung was reinflating, the officer would lie in bed and smoke a cigarette to relieve the stress.

1912 article dscribing the process

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/653274#:~:text=Artificial%20pneumothorax%20therapy%20consists%20in%20the%20repeated%20injections,indefinite%20period%20the%20collapse%20of%20a%20diseased%20lung.