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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2765, 21 August 1931, Page 8

.Cabled from London the other day that Londoners now consume 50 per cent, less alcohol and smoke 100 per cent, more tobaccothan formerly. Yet the enemies of the weed will insist that smoking invariably leads to drinking, and that the confirmed smoker is usually a confirmed sot. But the cablegram seems to give the lie direct to that assertion. It is a lie, because tobacco quite often does away with the craving for alcohol. And while liquor, taken to excess, fuddles the brain, and destroys the ability to think clearly, tobacco has precisely the opposite effect. It is a sedative and nerve-soother. But beware of over indulgence in tobacco unless it’s the foreign tobaccos generally are, it' will infallibly wreck the health, sooner or later. The world’s purest tobacco is the toasted New Zealand. The toasting kills the poison, leaving the tobacco pure, sweet, mellow, fragrant—and innocuous. There are only four brands of toasted: Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 and Cut Plug No. 10.* - I care not if the world roils on, , Or ends to leave no race or trace, With all its purport Head and gone, Mere cosmic dust in endless space. I care not while the mood shall last, A brief despdndency, be sure— The cold I caught will soon be past, I’m -taking Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 6