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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19122, 17 September 1936, Page 7

An amusing story about smoking. 'The headmaster of a Chiswick (London) boarding-school, according to the famous journalist, Geo. Augustus Sala, who was one of the pupils, announced that 1 if a boy was caught smoking he wouldn’t caned, but on three alternate days for a week he’d be supplied at dinner-time with a clean clay and half-an-ounee of “Shag.” “Wo had very few smokers after that,” said Sala. The taste for tobacco' must bo acquired, and is worth acquiring, for smoking probably yields more pleasure to its votaries than anything else, and provided the quality of the baccy’s right, smoking won’t do anyone much harm! The trouble is the quality’s- so often wrong! Excess of nicotine is responsible for that. The purest tobacco of all is “toasted,” for toasting frees it so largely of nicotine. Hence its innocuousness! The live famous (and only genuine) toasted brands, Cut Plug No. JO (Bullshead), Cavendish. Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold are not only the most delightful of all tobaccos, but the safest!*