“Jll-Victorlan doctors- had a lial.it of condemning anything that made life tolerable,” wrote Hr. Frederick Graves, in the Condon Daily 3'lxpress recently, adding, “(lie new school of medicine takes a different view. it has come to recognise that toliaeco, for instance, is a great, solace in times of worry, and for many a direct all (o mental effort and concentration.” The doctor, howevt is keenly alive to 1 lie (danger from oxcess of nicotine in tobacco. ‘‘Pure nicotine,” he states, “like strychnine and arsenic is now known to tie a deadly poison.” It is. And wliat is more, practically alt the brands in every-day tjse, contain more or less of this vile' stuff. The most notable exception is found in the Xew Zealand tobacco which, put through a costly purifying process in tite course of manufacture (toasting) is ren:lei*d practically free from nicotine and is consequently harmloss to the smoker. The process also gives this fatuous tobacco its world renowned flavour and peerless bouuquet. Note carefully there are only four brands: Rtverhead t Navy Cut No, 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 13 August 1932, Page 5
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