A collection of twenty old snuffboxes (some of them with lids encrusted with gems) realised nearly £lOOO at auction in London not long since. Snuffing was once upon a time as common as smoking is now. Will smoking ever go out of fashion? Never!—and the harder the times the greater the demand for the weed! it has become a “necessary commodity” in this strenuous age. But to get the maximum amount of pleasure and enjoyment out of it (and that without detriment to the health), it is absolutely essential it should be pure, i.e., as free from nicotine as it can be. Fortunately there need be no difficulty about that in this country for our New Zealand tobacco is reckoned not only the world’s purest but the most fragrant and delicious. It owes its fame (now spreading far beyond N.Z.), to the fact that it is toasted, which process not only largely eliminates the nicotine in it but imparts to it its matchless flavour and unrivalled bouquet. Five brands: “Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Navj; Cut No. 3, Pocket Edition, and Cut Plug No. 10.—103.—Advt.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1942, Page 2
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