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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 20 April 1939, Page 16

A hard nut to crack! “Scientists the world over,’’ writes Mr Amos Scrope in the Chicago “Witness, •• have been trying for ages to eliminate wholly the nicotine from tobacco, have found it a tough nut to crack, and given it up as a had job. But I understand the manufacturers of New Zealand have (dually cracked that nut, hard as it is! A relative of mine resident in the city of Wellington informs me ttiat the Dominion tobacco is not only the very finest quality—but—mark tiiis ! —is almost free from nicotine. How is il done? Well, it seems that they subject tile tobacco to great Lent, roast it, in fact, and so much of the poisonous nicotine is expelled that the rest doesn't matter! Thus treated the tobacco is rendered harmless. So far as I know this is the onlv toasted tobacco produced." nuite correct, Mr Scrope. Alt that is necessary to add is that (her,, are live brands only: Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold. Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish anil Cut Plug No. 10.