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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 16

A hard nut to.crack! "Scientists the w’nrid ’* writes Mr Amos Scrone in the Chicago "Witness," "have been trying for ages to eliminate wholly the nicotine from tobacco, have found it a tough nut to crack, and given it up as a bad job. But I understand the manufacturers of New Zealand tobacco have actually cracked that nut, hard as it is. A relative of mine resiaent in the city of Wellington informs me that the Dominion tobacco is not only the very finest quality—but—mark this —is almost free from nicotine. How Is it done Well, it seems that they subject the tobacco to great heat, roast it, in fact, and so much of the poisonous nicotine is expelled that the rest does not matter. Thus treated the tobacco is rendered harmless. So far as I know this is the only toasted tobacco produced.” Quite correct, Mr Scrope. All that is necessary to add is that there are five brands only: Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10