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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22486, 22 January 1943, Page 4

aThat famous writer of “thrillers,'’ Edgar Wallace, was a great smoker. Like so many literary men, he sought —and found —inspiration in tobacco. Affixed to a wall of his study he had a big pipe-rack holding perhaps a dozen pipes, and it was his practice before speaking into the dictaphone he always used (he never used a pen; to “load” three or four pipes so that directly he had smoked out one he could light another, without interrupting his train of thought. But tobacco is just as necessary to brain workers in other walks of life. Tire harassed business man. the scientist faced with some abstruse problem, and many others find solace in the weed. In all such cases there is nothing like a good comfortable smoke, and no tobacco half so refreshing as “toasted” Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Pocket Edition. Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. “Why toasted?" it used to be asked. Now every smoker knows that toasting eliminates the poisonous nicotine (common to all tobaccos) and renders “toasted” pure, sweet, fragrant and very comforting.