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Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 3

'' Mid-Victorian doctors had a habit of condemning anything that made life tolerable," wrote Dr Frederick Graves in the London ' Daily Express ' recently, adding: " The new school of medicine takes a different view. It has come to recognise that tobacco, for instance, is a great solace in times of worry, and for many a direct aid to mental effort and concentration." The doctor, however, is keenly alive to the danger from excess of nicotine in tobacco. " Pure nicotine," he states, " like strychnin* and arsenic, is now known to be a deadly poison." It is. And what is more, practically all the brands in everyday use contain more or less, of'this vile stuff. The most notable exception is found in the New Zealand tobacco which, put through a costly ipurifying process in the course of manufacture (toasting), is rendered practically free from nicotine, and is consequently harmless to the smoker. The process also gives this famous tobacco its world-renowned flavour and peerless bouquet. There are onlv six brands: Rivevhead Gold, Desert Gold. Navy Cut' No. 3. Pockr.t Edition, Cavendish, and Cut Plujr No. 'JO. All toasted.-rAdvt.l