UNUSUAL RISKS OF SMOKING [02/13]

A new study in England reports that, even after adjusting for age, smokers were 4.4 times as likely to have gray hair as those who did not smoke.

Among males, smokers were 1.9 times as likely as nonsmokers to be bald.

"This may offer a promising line of approach in health education against smoking," researchers concluded.

The study was done by Dr. J. G. Moseley of the Leigh Infirmary in Leigh, England, and Dr. A. C. C. Gibbs of the Christie Hospital in Manchester.

Another study has reported that lighting a cigarette doubles the risk that the driver of an automobile will cause an accident.

This study was by epidemiologists John M. Violanti of the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and James R. Marshall, now at the University of Arizona.

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