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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1929, Page 3

At an inquest down South the other day it appeared that deceased (whose death was attributed to heart trouble) was a heavy smoker and long accustomed to consume an ounce of tobacco a day. His medical adviser considered this excessive, but thought the quality of the tobacco,' in this case, was to blame as well. “You can’t,” Jig Said “go on smoking these imported tobaccos, almost all of them loaded with nicotine, without paying the • penalty sooner or later.” The coroner said he couldn’t understand why people would insist in so many cases, in smoking poisonous foreign tobaccos when we had here in New Zealand perhaps the purest brands of tobacco produced, and so comparatively free frc-m nicotine as to render them perfectly safe. Safe they certainly are, and tho absence to a very considerable extent of nicotine in them is undoubtedly due to the toasting of the leaf. This not only renders them practically innocuous but develops their flavour and aroma as well. Popular brands are: Riverhead Gold (mild), > Navy Cut No 3 (Bulldog), medium, : Cavendish medium and Cut Plug No ; 10 (Bullshead) full.—loo.