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Science 14 May 1971:
Vol. 172. no. 3984, pp. 741 - 743
DOI: 10.1126/science.172.3984.741
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Cigarette Smoking: Objective Evidence for Lung Damage in Teen-Agers

Janet E. Seely 1, Eugenija Zuskin 1, and Arend Bouhuys 1

1 John B. Pierce Foundation and Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

High school students with 1 to 5 years' smoking experience have excessive cough, sputum production, and shortness of breath. When maximum expiratory flow is plotted against maximum expired volume, the curves of nonsmokers and smokers differ in shape. The smokers have lower flow rates at mid-vital capacity and at lower lung volumes. This probably reflects small airway obstruction in the smokers.


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