Tennyson, the poet, was a worshipper at the shrine of ’“My Lady Nicotine,” and like many men of letters, preferred a pipe to a cigar. :i ’prat'd ten hadn’t been invented in his day). Mis favorite pipe was a common clay. He would take a new clay, Hit and light it, smoke it till empty, and then, snapping the stem and throwing the fragments aside, would pil and light a second clay. He never i,smoked the same pipe twice. Ills tobacco was purest Virginian, for ho I insisted upon the purity of his weed. I Therein lie was wise. Really pure I tobacco Is harmless. Impure tobacco (i.e., tobacco containing much nicoLine), may, and often does, prove highly injurious. This fact is at last becoming generally recognised. Hence the demand for our beautifully pure Now Zealand tobacco which, containing less nicotine than any other, can bo smoked even immoderately with absolute safety. Why?—because It’s toasted! There are, as most smokers know, four brands only of the genuine toasted tobacco: Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3. Cut Plug No. 10, and Riverhead
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 10
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180Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 10
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