“On the voyage to New Zealand,” writes Harold,Reeve in “Jottings,” a London Weekly.- “when a. fellowpassenger told me the New Zealand tobacco was toasted I thought he was pulling my leg. But he was right. The N.Z. tobacco IS toasted —and a wonderful difference it'makes! This same tobacco is the finest I ever smoked. It’s sweet and mellow, with a, delicious flavour and it smell as good as it tastes. Toasting does that —ay! and more, because it extracts the nicotine from the leaf, so that you caji smoke any amount of it without fear of consequences. There are no consequences! I don’t know of any other tobacco of which that can be said. Most of the American brands are rather rank with nicotine, and quite unsafe to smoke constantly. As long as I lived in New Zealand I smoked toasted tobacco. It is unique.” There are five brands of this tobacco: Desert Gold, Riverhead Gold, Navy Cup No. 3, Pocket Edition, and _Qut Plug No. 10, these are the only ’tv,astedftobaccos. Of course there '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 5
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