' . ■ AN ATHLETE’S AG ON A". " D.P.,'' a prominent New Zealand athlete, tolls of nis early smoking trials. He started on cigarettes, and then in the usual course things switched on to a pipe. “Then,” says’he, “my agony began. I tried one brand of tobacco after another. I tried special mixtures, and what not. I paid as much as 2s 2d an ounce. All to no avail. Tl»en came the day I tried Edgeworth, It was at a game of football. I had run short of tho brand J was smoking,’ and a casual acquaintance offered me a pipeful from his pouch. Imagine my delight when after, the first few puffs I did not feel the old familiar bite. I puffed on, inhaling tho delightful aroma, and oh, boy! it was sweet right down to the bottom. Nothing has separated me from ray pipe or my pipe from Edgeworth since then,”—[Advt.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 16
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