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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 3

“Show me the pipe a man smokes and I’ll tell you something about him,” says a retired London tobacconist, “your hard-headed practical chap likes a short pipe with a good big bowl and thick stem; a long curved stem with a small bowl indicates a musician, painter or poet; a serviceable pipe with a strong mouthpiece points to a writer.” The customer laughed, “How about the choice of the weed?” he asked, “that any guide to character?” “Well, there are smokers who never stick to any brand for long,” replied the old tobacconist, “there’s character in that you know. On the other hand two of my ‘regulars’ have been smoking same brand for twenty years: Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), one of the toasted blends; the others are Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. Why toasted? It cleans up the nicotine. Which are the most popular brands on the market? Well, there’s nothing I know of to touch the toasted blends; they’re unusually pure, very sweet, cool and fragrant.” And so say all of us