“On the voyage to New Zealand,’’ writes Harold Reeve in “Jottings,” a London Weekly, “when a fellow-pas-senger 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 smells as good as it tastes. Toasting does that —ay, and more, because it extracts the nicotine from the leaf, so that you can smoke any amount of it without, fear of consequences, there are no consequences! I don’t know any other tobacco of which that can bo said. Most of the American brands arc 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 four brands of this tobacco: Riverhead Gold, Navy Out No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10. These are the only toasted tobaccos. Of course there are imitations’*
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 88, 29 March 1932, Page 3
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