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"So you’ve given up smoking?” queried the smoker of the non-smoker as they chatted in the park the other morning—total strangers. “Did you break yourself of the habit by degress?” The other man laughed. f <No,” he said, “that’s not my way; I broke it off short and sharp. That was six 'months ago, and I’ve -never smoked since.” 'But why did you break it off?” ‘“Doctor’s orders. Throat trouble developing.” “I reckon you miss your smoke?” “You bet .1 do; 'but it can’t be helped.” “Don’t know so much about that. Ever smoked toasted tobacco?” “No, and now I never shall. I’m through with smoking.” “But toasted tobacco’s different. No “bite’ in it; very- little nicotine in toasted. Fact is, the stuff’s mostly toasted out of it. Don’t want to over-persuade you, but I’d ask the doctor if I were you, for leave to try toasted.” “So I will, then.” He did. Now he’s enjoying his pipe once more. Toasted is not only the most fragrant and delightful of all tobaccos, but the most harmless. There’s nothing finer manufactured. ;

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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32713, 15 May 1946, Page 8

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Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32713, 15 May 1946, Page 8

Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32713, 15 May 1946, Page 8

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