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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3851, 6 October 1932, Page 5

Some men will pay a fancy price for a pipe because they like its shape, or admire its mount. Yet the most expensive pipe you can buy gets foul Just as quickly as the humble “briar” you can get anywhere for a shilling. It’s not the pipe that matters half so much ns the tobacco you burn in it. Many doctors are heavy smokers, but being doctors they are generally careful to see their tobacco is pure, i.e., as free from nicotine as 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 tlio tobaccos grown and manufactured in this country are practically free from nicotine, owing to their being toasted. There are only four brands of toasted: Riverhead Gold, Navy Gut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10—all of them the world's best