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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19622, 17 October 1933, Page 7

•Of all the plants that grow," writes Professor Thorold Rogers in “Science Notes," the tobacco plant has probably been the source of more happiness than any other. To quote Kingsley "there's no herb like it under the canopy of heaven.” Sometimes it proves hig’ lv injurious, it is true. When it does the r's a reason for it. Smokers are notoriously careless. A man gets used to a certain brand and continues tc smoke it by the mere force of habit. it is pure it won't harm him It it 1: overloaded with the deadly poison ' own as nicotine it may kill him sooner or later The difficulty is to ensure i s purity. They have solved this problem in New Zealand I understand. The tobacco produced In that favoured land is toasted. That effectually rids It of most of Its nicotine, leaving it cuit» harmless.| A w'onderful country T The professor refers to the four brands so popular with New Zealanders: Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), and Rlvsr--1 -ad "old—the only sted tobaccos.