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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21186, 5 November 1938, Page 21

You may hardly credit it, but once upon a time men of five-and-twenty were considered too young to smoke! When Sir George Nugent was Governor of Jamaica in 1801 two of her aide-de-camp appealed to Lady Nugent for permission to smoke and were her diary records, "sternly refused,” her ladyship considering them “too young.” What would she think of the mere boys of the present day and their flapper friends who often smoke to excess? West Indian tobacco, by the way, is pretty strong stuff, and not to be compared with our New Zealand product, so fragrant and so soothing and at the same time so comparatively innocuous thanks to the manufacturers’ exclusive toasting process which largely eliminates the nicotine in it and leaves it pure and sweet. That it is appreciated by smokers is demonstrated by the enormous demand for all the five blends—Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. Go where you will you’ll find these famous tobaccos on sale—a convincing proof of their wide-spread popularity