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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 5

Some men will pay a fancy price for a pipe itecause they like its shape, or admire its mount. Yet the most expensive pipe you can buy gels foul just as quickly ns the humble “briar” you can get. anywhere for a shilling. It's not the pipe that matters half so much as the tobacco you burn in it. Many doctors are heavy smokers. hut being doctors they are generally careful to see their tobacco is pure, i.e., as free from nicotine ns they can get it. Nicotine is a most insiduous poison and is at the root of all trouble caused by smoking. Pure tobacco never did anyone any harm. It’s the brands reeking with nicotine —as all imported brands are—that should be avoided.. Happily for New Zealand smokers the tobaccos grown and manufactured in this country are practically free from nicotine, owing to tlieir being toasted. There are only four brands of toasted: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10—all of them the Frorld’# blest