"Gotta match?" demanded the cheeky looking youngster of the elderly gentleman in the smoking saloon of the "ferry" steamer. "How old are you my lad?" mildly enquired the old gentleman, knocking the ash off his cigar, "about sixteen, I should say. Left school yet? I was five-and-twenty before I started smoking." The boy flushed. His pride was hurt. "Oh, times have changed since your day," he said rudely. "They have," agreed the veteran, "and not for the better, I'm afraid.". With an insolent laugh the youth sauntered away. Now the age at which one begins to smoke is of less consequence than the quality of the tobacco used. Some brands are unsafe to smoke at any age. Others may be smoked with impunity whether you are sixteen, sixty or six hundred. Our beautiful toasted tobaccos, for example—Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, being practically free from nicotine (eliminated by toasting), are not only famous for flavour and bouquet, but absolutely safe no matter how freely you may indulge. (495)
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4746, 14 September 1935, Page 2
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