Why (loos some tobacco bite the tongue? Experts now tell us thatmoisture is the offender. Common sense too! The moisture turns to steam during the combustion of tfte tobacco, and this hot steam naturally bites the tongue. Hence the dryer the tobacco the cooler the smoke, and the better the value, because that surplus water adds- to weight. Gold Pouch, the New Zealand grown tobacco, never bites the tongue—it is pure genuine tobacco without excess moisture. Unequalled in combustibility it burns freely to the lastshred without that soppiness so common to most foreign tobaccos which foul the pipe and coat the tongue, leaving a nasty bitter aftertaste. New Zealand soil and climate alone can produce a tobacco so mild and with such a small percentage of nicotine, containing but 3$ per cent., ass against 4 and 5 per cent, in foreign tobaccos. Gold Pouch is the milder and least injurious of all smokes not affecting the heart, no matter how much yon smoke of it. Doctors speak highly of New Zealand tobacco and recommend it to thiJStj, who' study their health, i
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 46, 19 September 1918, Page 5
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