At a conferenico of medicos at Birmingham recently tBo subject of tobacco ci-’o]>porl lip. Tho jrmsklon.t sfihl that iv some method could bo devised of eliminating nicotine from tobacco. Mio discovery’ would bonofit humanity boon use niootino was responsible for 'many and (tivivo ills. Sandy tho doctors taking part in that oonforonoo aro behind tho timos- —otherwise they would know that tobacco is now bein'# grown and monofact tired' in Now Zealand which is practically free front nicotine. This happy result has boon achieved by toasting tho leaf. That kills the nicotine. Tobacco thus treated is rendered quite harmless. You can smoke it even to excess with impunity. You cannot say that of the imported tobaccos, for they are mostly full of nicotine. There are, by the way. only four brands of toasted New Zealand on the market— Hive rhea cl Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. Ift. They are of various strengths, but are all remarkable for their purity, coolness, flavour and fine aroma. Of course they are being imitated' —so beware! —'lso
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 August 1931, Page 5
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