An Auckland lady relates how she was accosted in Queen street by a shabbily dressed man who begged so hard for sixpence that at last she gave him one —-and then followed to see what he would do. She expected he would make for a public house. But he bolted into the nearest tobaeoonist shop. He merged puffing a battered old briar, his face radiant ' The indignant la ly “told him off,” declaring he had wasted her sixj>ence! But was it wasted? That lady evidently didn’t know there is such a thing as “tobacco-hunger.’* But smokers know. They know, too, that it is sometimes as hard to endure as the craving for food. Perhaps it, was in this, instance? It certainly looked like if. Tobacco is immensely comforting when trouble comes. But; to banish care it must be good—not the imported staff, often poisonous with nicotine —hut (he New Zealand article, practically “nicotineless” because it is toasted- Brands? There are four : Riverheart . Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10. -. - TT ~
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3847, 1 October 1932, Page 5
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