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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 25, 20 November 1945, Page 8

Interesting to smokers! Professor Shelcral't an English analytical chemist of repute, has been experimenting Avith nicotine, and solemnly warns smokers of the danger of using habitually brands of tobacco containing a heavy percentage of this well-known poison. Although, says the professor, it is possible to use such brands for years without ill-effects manifesting themselves it •9 can only be a question of time when they do. Then the smoker's nerves go to pieces., or heart trouble, develops as the result of smoking the wrong tobacco! Such cases are. common, although their origin is not ahvays suspected. Happily, Dominion smokers are not exposed to risks of this kind because, our New Zea- ? land tobacco contains so little nicotine that it really doesn't count. The .special purifying process to which it is subjected in the factory removes most of the nicotine content. Hence its unusual purity fine flavour and delightful fragrance. There are six choice brands: 'Riverhead Gold Desert Gold Navy (kit No. 3, Pocket Edition, Cut Plug No. 10 and Cavendish; also Riverhead and Desert Gold tailormadcs. All toaSted.