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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18181, 31 August 1933, Page 4

“Widow lady, young, and considered good-looking, wishes to meet man of culture, about 40. View matrimony. Smoker preferred.” This advertisement appeared in a Melbourne paper. The last two words are significant. Is the lady’s preference for a smokerhusband based on previous matrimonial experience or dictated by* a famous novelist’s advice: “Never marry a man who doesn’t smoke?" Smokers, as a rule, make the best husbands, anyhow. A smoker is usually less exacting, than a non-smoker, less irritable, more amiable, more generous, easier to get on with. Tobacco (when pure) helps to minimise worry, and vanish care. Excess of nicotine in the weed means frayed nerves, and “shortness” of temper. These evils don’t affect to anything like the same extent the smoker who uses New Zealand toasted tobacco. Next to no nicotine in it, that’s why! it's toasted! And how it. soothes and comforts! Thousands of smokers can testify to that! Four brands only of the genuine toasted: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendikh, and Cut Plus: Net, 10 (Bullshead).*