Tbe dyspeptic looking. party in tbe dyed suit gazed "witb disgust at tbe bus driver's ancient briar. "How long, may I isk," he said, "bave you been addicted to tbe pernicious babit of smoking?" Tbe bus driver's eyes twinkled. "Well, if it'll cbeer you up to know, gov'ner, say 30 years." "And tbe cost? " " Two bob a week. " "Tui! tut! a sbocking waste of money! Is it "wortb it, my friendf" "Every blooming copper of it guvner. Gottft matcb?" Tbe.stranger groaned. Everybody else laugbed. These antitobaes mean "Well—- perhaps. But smoking's not a crime. It gives joy to millions every day, and won't do . anybody a ba-portb of barm so long as they avoid biands reeking witb nicotine as unfortnnately so rnany brands are.' The safe way is to smoke "toasted." Toasting kills tbe nicotine and leaves tbe .baecy cool, sweet and fragrant. The five (and only genuine") toasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull's Head), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bull Dog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Uescsrt Gold are tbe purest and most wholesome tobaccos manufaetured tbe world over.*
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 10
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