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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11448, 30 January 1918, Page 8

A certain firm had advertised a non-nicotine smoking mixture, made outside London, as a substitute for tobacco (writes a London correspondent). Six tons of the material used were seized at the factory and an lysis proved it to 'consist of ordinary forest leaves, darkened by some process and cut. It was reckoned to no the finest imitation tub ecu ever Seen, and u PO per cent of it could ho mired with genuine tobacco, the adulteration would remain undetected. Had the amount seized been converted into substitute, loss to revenue would h>vo reached £l*B4o. The company concerned was charged ■with an alleged offence against the Tobacco Act and had to pay u line of £3O.