A certain firm had advertised a nonnicotine sraoking mixture, made outside London, as a substitute for tobacco (writes our London correspondent). Six tons of the material used were seized at the factory, and analysis proved it to consist of ordinary forest leaves, darkened by some nrocess and cut. It was reckoned to be the finest imitation tobacco ever seen, and if 50 per. cent, of it could be mixed with genuine tobacco the adulteration would remain undetected, ji-ul iJiC amount seized been converted into substitute S reV6DUe WOuld have reached ±-£WO. The company to n C ernod was charged for an alleged offence against f °£20 ° ' aDd had P 3 ? » fi ue
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16113, 18 January 1918, Page 8
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