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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19898, 28 March 1939, Page 9

$ An old Auckland identity tolls how walking' up Quoon Street tlio other afternoon ho was accosted by a shabbily dressed elderly man who asked for a "trille.” "Want a drink, eh?” queried the identity. “No” was the reply, “I want a smoke. A month since I had one. If you smoke yourself you’ll know how I feel." Convinced that the man spoke the truth, the old identity handed over a shilling. He had been there himself and knew from personal experience what "tobacco-hunger” is like. Nonsmokers who condemn smoking as a bad habit don’t know much. Tobacco has cheered and solaced millions worsted in the battle of life, and provided it is pure and good it is really beneficial. Probably the purest tobacco, by the way, is our own New Zealand “toasted.” Where will you get a mild aromatic like Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, a medium flavoured like Navy Cut No. .1 or Cavendish, a full strength like Cut Plug No. 10? And thanks to their) being toasted when manufactured, | there’s next to no nicotine in any of them! I