Tennyson, the poet, was a worshippr at the <hr;ne of ‘ My I adv NicoGne. ’ and likt many men of letters, pref' rrcfi a rq>.‘ to a c’gar. (( jgarctte.s hadn’t been invented in his day). His favourite pipe was a common clay. He would take a new clay, fill and light it, smoke it till empty, and then, snapping the stem and throwing the fragments aside, would fill and light a second clay. Ho never smoked the same pipe twice. His tobacco was purest Virginian, for he insisted upon the purity of his weed. Therein he was wise. Really pure tobacco is harmless. Impure tobacco, (i.e., tobacco containing much nicotine) may. and often does prove; highly injurious. This fact is at least becoming generally recognised. Hence the demand for our beautifully pure New Zealand tobacco which, containing less nicotine than any other, can be smoked even immoderately with absolute safetv Why?—hccausei it’s toasted! 'Ther r nre, as most smokers know, four brandonly of the genuine toasted tobacco: Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3, Cut Pin*’ No. 10, and Riverhead Gold. 299.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 28 January 1933, Page 7
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