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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VL, Issue 3132, 9 February 1934, Page 5

Amusing to read in the papers letters from amateur financiers and reformers embodying wild schemes to cure depression. Some of these effusions would make a cat laugh. One Auckland correspondent proposes a further tax on cigarettes of 2d per packet, and a similar additional tax on tobacco. Smokers objecting . are counselled to smoke less so that -the increased prices to tobacco won’t matter to them! This genius ought to be made Finance Minister right away! Are you listening, Mr Coates ? Surely it should be obvious that any further taxation of tobacco must result in a largely lessened demand, with a cor- ■' responding drop in customs’ revenue —to say nothing of the inevitable increase of unemployment occasioned by the decreased production of tobacco. Smoking is not necessary, argues this correspondent. Isn’t it? Pure, soothing, and nerve-calming tobacco, such as Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), are more necessary than ever just now. Practically free from nicotine they are a boon and a blessing unspeakable when times are hard and things go wrong.