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Northland Age, Volume XII, Issue 43, 5 August 1943, Page 3

“Trouble you for a match, sir?” It was in a Wellington street car.) “No!” snapped the man addressed, “Haven’t got one, wouldn’t give it if I had. Smoking is a shocking waste of time and money.” “I’m not wasting your time or your money, either,” came the reply. The surly passenger grunted. There are men like that, unfortunately. They get no pleasure out of life, and hate to see others get any. The chap that has no use for tobacco is to he pitied. Only the smoker knows the joy of smoking. It’s a very harmless pleasure, too. Choose your tobacco wisely, that’s all, and avoid brands loaded with nicotine, as most of the imported leaf is. Our toasted New Zealand tobacco is the stuff; The toasting neutralises the poisonous nicotine, so that you can smoke all you want with absolute safety. Toasted leaf has a more delightful flavour, by' the way, and a rare fragrance of its own. There are only five brands : Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Cut Plug No. 10, Cavendish, and Navy Cut No. 3. —R.P. 184.