Running On A Health Ticket

November, 1976

When Playboy decided to publish Dr. J. E. Schmidt's "Jogging Can Kill You!" in our March issue, we knew we were going to stir up some controversy. But we were hardly prepared for the blizzard of mail that descended upon us from an outraged jogging fraternity (which evidently has more members than Sigma Chi) and from doctors and physical therapists whose faith in the benefits of jogging was unshaken by Dr. Schmidt's heavy blows. Among those who wrote to us at length was Dr. Kaj Johansen...