“Do I think cigarettes will ever kill the demand for pipe tobacco?” said the weed merchant. “Not a chancelno more than cold water will ever kill the demand for foaming ale! Why, there are millions of pipe-smokers who have no time for cigarettes, or even cigars;, yes, and what’s more, there are any amount of ’em right here in New Zealand. Thdre’s no doubt whatever, all said and done, that our own toasted blends of pipe baccy, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish and Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), have done a lot-to popularise pipe-smoking in New Zealand, just as the toasted blends of cigarette tobacco, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, have sent up sales of cigarette tobacco sky-hi-gh amongst the roll-your-own crowd. There’s something about toasted that fail’ gets you, so that other brands seem sort of insipid and wanting in ‘flavour.’ ” The customer nodded. H e knows! One of the outstanding merits of “toasted” is that the process frees it of most of its nicotine. That’s why it’s so comparatively harmless. —6.
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Grey River Argus, 13 September 1946, Page 6
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