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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21448, 12 September 1939, Page 3

Havana cigar “tasters” don’t smoke I the cigars they grade. If they did ; they’d soon peg out. No. They just i take one mouthful of smoke from a ; cigar and puff it into a tumbler which I has been swilled out with water. The I smoke, or most of it, is retained in the glass by the moisture, and is sniffed j by the “taster,” who judges the quality by the aroma. And that’s one way in ; which the pipe-.smoker tells what’s I what—by the aroma. The aroma of I “toasted” is so peculiarly delicious that i the smoker knows at once he’s got hold of something “extra special.” Both for ' bouquet and flavour “toasted” is unique. It stands alone. There’s no | other tobacco so good—and so harmless. The nicotine, you see, is “killed” I by the “toasting”—the manufacturers' j exclusive process. “Pirates” have often ' tried to imitate it—and found it could l not be done! The five famous brands ' are: Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. Oi course they’re imitated. So beware