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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7025, 8 December 1932, Page 7

Tennyson, the poet was a worshipper at the shrine of “My Lady Nicotine,” and like many men of letters, preferred a pipe to a cigar. (Cigarettes hadn’t been invented in his day). His favourite pipe was a common claj. He would take a new clay, fill and light it, smoke it till empty, and then, snapping the stem and throning c fragments aside, would fill and light a second clay. He never smoked the same pipe twice. His tobacco was purest Virginian, for ho 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 last becoming generally recognised. Hence tho demand for our beautifully pure New Zealand tobacco which, containing less nicotine than any other, can be smoked even immoderately with absolute safety. Why?—-because it’s toasted! There are,'as most smokers know, four brands only of the genuine toasted tobacco: Cavendish. Navy Cut No. 3, Cut Tlug No. 10, and Riverhead Gold, ,