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Source: Decatur Herald Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “McKinley’s Use of Tobacco” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Decatur, Illinois Date of publication: 17 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 142 Pagination: 4 |
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| “McKinley’s Use of Tobacco.” Decatur Herald 17 Sept. 1901 n142: p. 4. |
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| William McKinley (use of tobacco); William McKinley (medical condition); McKinley physicians (public statements); William McKinley (medical care). |
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| William McKinley. |
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McKinley’s Use of Tobacco
The question as to whether President
McKinley’s suddenly enforced abstention from the use of cigars had any effect
on his heart action has been discussed. One of the attending physicians says:
“I think that is not true,” said the doctor.
“We did speak at one time or another of allowing
him to smoke, but that matter was not seriously considered, and he never was
in a condition when the craving for a cigar could have been felt.
“As to the effects upon his heart action from
his abstention from tobacco, there is really nothing to say. If it had been
the president’s custom to smoke twenty or thirty cigars a day, possibly some
effect might have been noticed in his heart action by a sudden cessation of
the use of tobacco; but he was a moderate smoker, three or four cigars a day
was his average.”