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Opunake Times, 21 February 1939, Page 1

A veteran smoker (wellknown locally) was holding forth to a little group of fellow- passengers aboard an Auckland ierry-boat the other evening. .Said be: "I started smoking a pipe when I was 20. Thirty years later my doctor told me to quit smoking right away. I asked him when he thought I should be able to start again." "When they invent a tobacco without nicotine in it," he replied. He thought he was being funny, but, bv George! they have invented a tobacco practically free from nicotine since then, so I am smoking my old briar once more!" "What tobacco d'you refer to 5" asked somebody. "Why the New Zealand tobacco. It's toasted, and thus most of the nicotine in it is eliminated. Even my doctor has nothing to urge against this tobacco. Smokes it himself!" This, old North Shore resident referred to the five celebrated brands: Navy Cut No. 3, Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10, and he. spoke truly when he said these brands were not only harmless but possessed a flavour imvl bouuuet *ll their own.

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