Untitled

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 8

“Twenty cigarettes a day?” laughed tho tobacconist. “That's nothing! Why some of my 'regulars’ smoko twice as many, and one of ’em smokes a hundred!” “He must be a whale for them!” murmured the customer, “Well, a, hundred’s plenty,” admitted the tobacconist, “but a whole lot depends on the tobacco —even 20 a day’s too many if you smoke the wrong brand. I smoke cigarettes myself —heaps of ’em —but they don’t hurt me worth a cent, because my favourite’s Riverliead Gold, and as that’s toasted, with hardly any nicotine in it, I’m as right as rain! It’s toasting that cleans up the nicotine.” "Isn’t there another toasted cigarette tobacco?" queried the customer. “There is,” said the tobacconist, “Desert Gold—Al at Lloyd’s—so are tho three other toasted brands: Cuj Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). Cavendish, and Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). But they’re for the pipe. Pact is, smokers aro a jolly sight more particular than they used to be. Must have the best now! —and they find it in toasted.” So that’s how one more convert to toasted was made 1 *