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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 7 February 1941, Page 2

At an inquest down south the other day it appeared deceased (death attributed to heart trouble) was a heavy smoker and accustomed to consume an ounce a day. His doctor considered this excessive, but thought the quality of the tobacco was to blame as well. “You can’t,” he said, “go on smoking these imported tobaccos, practically all of them loaded with nicotine, without paying the penalty some time.” The coroner agreed. Said he couldn’t understand why people so often smoke poisonous foreign tobaccos when we had here in New Zealand perhaps the purest brands in the world, and quite sale smoking. He was referring to the tobaccos grown and j manufactured in the Dominion by • the National Tobacco Co. (pioneers jof the N.Z. tobacco industry). Safe ' idy ... ■comparative freedom irom nicotine jis due to the toasting of the leaf. ' This not only venders them harm- ' less, but develops flavour and aroma, i Popular brand. : Rivcrhead Gold nild) Desert Gol Navy Cut No (Bui g medium >, Cavendish 1 (medium) and Cut Ph.l3 No. lu 1 mil ftUeugUlJ.