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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7068, 30 January 1933, Page 7

Only one woman in Great Britain practises th. 3 profession of tea-tasting. Shaking an admonitory finger at thcsmoker opposite (it was in a Wellington tram) the tobacco-hater leant forward to ask. “Aro you not ashamed to set an evil example to others by smoking that vile pipe?” The man addressed laughed. “I don’t insist on your smoking,” he said, ‘Why should you insist on my not smoking?” “I have a duty to society to discharge,” was the lofty reply. “And you think that entitles you to tako a gross liberty with a total stranger? Pure tobacco, my good sir, is doing a million times more good for humanity thau you can hope to accomplish by abusing it.” “There’s no pure tobacco,” sneered the other. Producing a small tin the smoker said: “This is New Zealand tobacco, pure as fresh air, fragrant as rosjes, comforting, solacing, delicious. Harmless, too; because it’s toasted. If you were a smoker you’d understand. As a non-smoker your opinion doesn’t count.” That settled him! There aro four brands of toasted tobacco —Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10. They are unequalled.