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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1931, Page 6

Told by liis doctor that ho must, for fho present, limit himself to three pipes a day, a Timam man invested in a huge briar holding about a quarter of an ounce. Later he confessed to the trie!: j he had played, remarking that his three j big pipes a day had done him no harm 'because lie smoked New Zealand toastled tobacco. The doctor agreed. The explanation is that while the foreign tobaccos all contain an excess of nicotine the New Zealand tobacco contains next to none, because it is toasted and the toasting eliminates the poison and makes the baccy safe to smoke to any extent. There are, by the way, only four brands of toasted manufactured: Ifiverhead (told, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. .'I, and Cut Plug No. 10. They vary in strength but are all of them] famous for their fine flavour and unrivalled aroma. The success attained by these beautiful tobaccos has had the usual effect —they are being imitated —and smokers will do well to be on their guard when buying. T.T.166