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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3110, 24 April 1942, Page 8

A hars nut to crack! “Scientists the world oyer,” writes Mr Amos Scrope in the Chicago “Witness”

“have been trying for ages to eliminate wholly the nicotine from tobacco, have found it a tough nut to crack, and given it up as a bad job. But I understand the manufacturers of New Zealand tobacco have actually cracked that nut, hard as it is. A relative of mine resident in the city of Wellington informs me that the Dominion to-

bacco is not only the very finest quality—but—mark this!—is almost free from nicotine. How is this done? Well, it seems that they subject the tobacco to great heat, roast it, in fact, and so much of the poisonous nicotine is expelled that the rest doesn’t matter! Thus treated the tobacco is rendered harmless. So far as I know this is the only toasted tobacco produced.” Quite correct, Mr Scrope. All that is necessary to add is that there are five brands only: Riverhead Gold, Desert 'Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Pocket Edition and. Cut Plug 1 No. 10. Desert Gold.