TOBACCO, ALCOHOL AND ANGINA PECTORIS

Abstract

The relationship of the use of tobacco and of alcohol to angina pectoris is a matter of widespread interest and great importance, and yet it continues to be merely a topic for idle speculation and medical gossip. No extensive and reliable data have been published to throw light on it, although occasional remarks and opinions have been expressed in accounts of this symptom of angina pectoris, or if statistics have been presented they have been either inadequate in themselves or else inadequately controlled. We have therefore considered it worth while to study one aspect of the subject by analyzing the habits in the use of tobacco and alcohol of a series of 750 patients of our own with angina pectoris as contrasted to the habits of a series of 750 individuals of the same sex and age incidence and from the same walks of life who did not have angina