The old-time sailorman has gone out along with the windjammers, and with him has gone the old-time coarse plug tobacco, black as the ace of spades and poisonous with nicotine. The modern steamboat sailor is more particular. He prefers “cut-up.” But it’s not every brand of cut-up that’s O.K. or there’d be fewer cases perhaps of smoking causing heart or nerve trouble and minor ills. Now pure tobaccos as essential to good health as pure water or pure food, and if you find smoking is giving you “the jumps,” a burnt tongue or a bad throat, change over to “toasted.” Its flavour will delight you and its aroma fascinate you. Also you’ll find you can smoke it freely as you please. It won’t let you down. The secret of its extraordinary purity and magic appeal is that it’s “toasted.” consequently largely freed of its nicotine. The only genuine toasted blends are Cut Plug No. 10 Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold—and once you try them you’ll always buy them. ....
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20839, 22 September 1937, Page 8
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