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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 5

“Punch's” famous “advice to those about to marry" was “Don't." Ft. L. Stevenson’s advice to ladles contemplating matrimony* was "'never marry a non-smoker.” Charles Rende. the novelist, who flourished before cocktails. night-clubs, votes for women, and the intellectual superiority of the “softer sex” were invented counselled ladies to encourage their husbands and fiances, to smoke all they wanted to. Darin;? advice at a time when women hadn’t learned to smoke and hated —or said they hated —tobacco. Ah. well, the world Krows wiser every day! And it is becoming generally recognised that, given the right baccy, smoking, so far from proving harmful, Is often positively beneficial. Unfortunately. however, the right baccy is not so common as it should be —save in New Zealand. There are five brands: Navy Cut No. 3. Pocket Edition. Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, and Cut Plug No. 10. Not one of them contains any nicotine worth mentioning: all are famous for thensplendid quality. They are toasted! .—and quite harmless. They don’t effect heart or, throat, and are as pure as they are delicious,’ 1 '