“Don’t cram a new pipe with tobacco and smoke it right out,’’ writes “Old Smoker,” in a Melbourne paper, “if subjected to intense beat the bowl, until protected by a layer of carbon, is very liable to crack; knocking a pipe against something hard to get the ashes out, and lighting up from the flame of a candle, should also be avoided.” Correct, Sir! But how about the baccy? If loaded with nicotine (as it often is) a pipe quickly fouls, necessitating constant scraping until the bowl’s worn thin as c. sixpence. Impure tobacco’s bad for the pipe and worse for the smoker. But why smoke it, when you can get “toasted," combining a fascinating flavour with a delicious bouquet, at any tobacconists. As for purity—there’s no tobacco like it. The nicotine Is absorbed by toasting and the baccy’s rendered as harmless as it can possibly be. The five brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, merit their immense popularity. The world can show no finer tobaccos
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20667, 4 March 1937, Page 9
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