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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18822, 10 March 1931, Page 11

Told by his doctor that he must, for the present, limit himself to three pipes a day, a Timaru man invested in a huge briar holding about a quarter of an ounce. Later he confessed to the trick he had played remarking that his three big pipes a day had done him no harm because he smoked New Zealand toasted tobacco. The doctor agreed. The explanation is that while the foreign tobaccos all contain an excess of nicotine, the New Zealand tobacco contains next to none, because it is toasted and the toasting eliminates the poison and makes the baccy safe to smoke to any extent. There are, by the way, only four brands of toasted manufactured: Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3, and Cut Plug No. 10. They vary in strength tut are all of them famous for their fine flavour and un-rivalled aroma. The sucecss attained by these beautiful tobaccos has had the usual effect—they are being imitated—and smokers will do well to be on frheir guard when buying.