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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13646, 20 May 1942, Page 2

"Punch's"' famous "advice to those about <to marry" was "Don't." R. L. Stevenson's advice to ladies contemplating matrimony, was "never marry a non-smjoker." Charles Reade. the novelist, who flournished before cock-tails, nightclubs, votes for women, and the intellectual superiority of the "softer sex" were invented counselled ladies to encourage their husbands and finances to smoke all they wanted to. Daring advice at a time when women hadn't learned to smoke and hated —or said they hated—tobacco. Ah. well, the world grows wiser every day! And it is becoming generally recognised that, given the right baccy, smoking, so far from proving harmful, is of;en positively beneficial. Unfortunately, however, the right baccy is not so common as it should be—save in New Zealand. There are five brands: Navy Cut No. 3, Pocket Edition, Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, and Cut Plug No. 10. Not one of them contains any nicotine worth mentioning; all are famous for their splendid quality. They are toasted —and quite harmless. They don't effect heart or 'throat, and are as pure as they are delic-