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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, 17 July 1930, Page 11

“If you smoke here you will smoke hereafter!” Such is the rather startling title of a leaflet distributed broadcast by a London Anti-Tobacco Association. This should be interesting to devotees of the weed. There is a lot of nonsense written and uttered. about tobacco. Smoking is no crime! And if it makes existence more enjoyable for most of us (as it assuredly does), why should we not indulge? The “one thing needful” is that the tobacco should be pure. Imported brands seldom are. How can they be seeing that most of them are poisonous with nicotine? Cases innumerable there are of heart or n&ve trouble due to excess of poison in the leaf. Nicotine can be largely eliminated, however, by toasting the tobacco. This process renders it perfectly innocuous. It also gives it its famous bouquet and incomparable flavour. There are only four brands of toasted on the market —Riverhead Gold, Cavendish. Navy Cut No. 3, and Cut Plug No. 10. Of course there are imitations! Did you ever know of a good thing that wasn’t imitated?