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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 8 December 1931, Page 10

“There can be no question,’’ says Dr. Ernest Moorcroft, well-known as a nerve specialist, “that nervous disorders have greatly increased of late years, and 1 am of the opinion that smoking is largely responsible. Not that I object to smoking, for I happen to be a smoker myself. But it is essential that the tobacco should bo of the purest. Unfortunately most tobaccos contain a dangerously high percentage of nicotine, and which may have disastrous effect on the nervous system. They seem to attach more importance to this fact in New Zealand where the locally grown and manufactured tobacco is all toasted, the object being to extra :t the nicotine. This it certainly does for New Zealand tobacco is perhaps the purest in the world and, owing to the toasting, certainly the most harml'i's It posseses moreover, a fine flavoui and a peculiarly delightful fragrance I know because I have sampled the goods.’’ The doctor refers to the popular brands Riverhead Gold. Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 and Cut Plug No. 10. because these ore the only toasted tobaccos.*