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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20585, 26 November 1936, Page 4

At a Rotary luncheon in South Canterbury the other day the talk drifted round to smoking, and an ancient mariner remarked, “I’d be Lost without my pipe! When some months ago I consulted my doctor for throat trouble he iiinted I might have to give up smoking altogether. I was flabbergasted! Seeing me upset he asked what brand of tobacco 1 usually smoked. ‘Cut it out!’ he roared when I told him, ‘like so many brands today it’s foul with nicotine!’ Then he calmed down. “You’ll have to go slow for a bit,’ he said, ‘but smoking in moderation—till you’re better—won’t hurt you, so long as it’s toasted—the genuine toasted I mean. mind. I smoke it myself. There’s next to no nicotine in it.’ Well. I did as I was told ana was soon O.K. again. But I still stick to toasted. You can’t beat it!” Smokers everywhere will say. •Hear! hear!” But, as the doctor said it must be genuine toasted—Cut Plug No 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold