“Punch’s” famous ‘‘advice to those about to marry” was “Don’t.” R. L. Stevenson's advice to ladies contemplating matrimony, was “never marrv a non-smoker.” Charles Reade, the novelist, who flourished before cocktails, night-clubs, votes for women, and the intellectual superiority of the “softer sex” were invented counselled ladies to encourage theft* husbands and fiances to smoke all they wanted to. Darinp advice at a ? time when women hadn’t learned to smoke and hated —or said they hated—tobacco. Ah, well, the world grows wiser every day! And it is becoming generally recognised that, given Hie right baccy, smoking, so far from proving harmful, is often positively beneficial. Unfortunately, however, the right baccy is not so common as it should be—save in New Zealand. There are five brands: Navy Cut No. 3. Cavendish, Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold and Cut Plug No. 10. Not one of them contains any nicotine worth mentioning; an are famous for their splendid quality. They are toasted!—and «uilc harmless. They don’t, affect heart or throat, and are as pure as they are delicious.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20690, 28 December 1938, Page 7
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