“Funny how tastes change, in pipe tobaccos,” remarked an Auckland tobacconist to a pressinan, the other day. Formerly the demand was ad tor the imported tobacco, but to-day it’s New Zealand tobacco that is all the rage, and lor every ounce of imported .1 sell, .1 dispose of a pound of New Zealand. It certainly is ‘the goods.’ 1 fancy it's tho toasting ol the leaf that mostly accounts for it’s line flavour ami aroma. Its the only toasted tobacco on the market, so far as I know. Several doctors who are amongst my customers will smoko nothing else. They say there’s so little nicotine in it that its by far the safest to smoke. Well, it must he admitted that those foreign brands often contain a dangerous amount of nicotine. Oh, yes there are several brands of New Zealand. Perhaps I sell more Navy Cut No. 3 (Bull-dog) than anything else, hut Cut Plug No. 10 (Thfilsheajd) “nil flavour runs it pretty close. Then there’s Ikverhead Cold a mild aroma'fic, which also has a big sale. But they’re all good.’ 1 ’ 7 '
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 15 February 1929, Page 3
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