“When a bloke tells me ’e don’t smoke ’cause ’e ’as eonsheenshus objections,” remarked the bus. driver, lighting his pipe, ‘T let it go at that.' ’Taint nothing todo wif me. But if ’e ’as eonsheenshus objections to me smoking I reckon it’s like ’is ruddy cheek. Some coves don’t like oysters and stout. Well, that’s tlieir misforchune. But why expect me to foller suit? Get me? Well it’s just the same wif smoking. If a party don’t want to smoke nobody’s going to make him. It’s a free country. But smoking to me is what the poet blokes call ‘a joy for ever.’ So it is to millions more. And if I get real enjoyment out of my toasted bacc—which is Cut Plug No. 10— that’s my funeral. Gotta match?” The philosophy of the bus driver is sound. No one is compelled to smoke Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold, or Desert Gold. But most smokers do.
So that’s that. And why not? These blends are champion—harmless, too. They’re toasted I
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 289, 7 December 1936, Page 8
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