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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23215, 31 May 1945, Page 2

How did the queer word “tobacco'' originate? Authorities differ. But what’s a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and tobacco by any other name would taste and smell as good! Here in New Zealand it’s often called "toasted,'' that being the name covering the five brands favoured by most smokers now. And it merits its popularity. There is no other tobacco that approaches it for mellowness, flavour and fragrance. It has been truly remarked that once you smoke toasted you've no time for any other sort! Year by year its fame has spread, until to-day its manufacture constitutes a national Industry, yielding steady employment for a large number of lianas. It’s simply unbeaten for purity. The toasting of the lent largely eliminates the nicotine In It and renders the finished product us harmless as tobacco can possibly be made. Here are the genuine toasted brands: cut Plug No. 10 ißullsheadl, Pocket Edition. Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, also iaiiormader. All fnitiJcd. and do sore throat, no cougli!