That famous writer of "thrillers," Edgar Wallace, was a great smoker. Like so many literary men he sought — and found — inspiration in tobacco. Affixed to a wall of his study he had a big pipe raclc holding, perhaps, a dozen pipes, and it was his praetice before speaking into the dlctaphone he always used (ho never used a pen) to "load" three or four pipes so that directly he had smoked out one lie could light another, without interrupting his train of thought. But tobacco is just as necessary to brain workers in other walks of life. The harassed business rnau, tho scientist faced with some abstruse probleiu, and many others find solace iu tho weod. In all such cases tliere is no thing like good comfortable smoke, and no tobacco half so refreshing as "toasted" Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldo^/ , Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. "Why toasted?" it used to be asked. Now every smoker knows that toasting eliminates the poisonous nicotine (common to all tobaccos) and renders "toasted" pure, sweet, fragrant and very coinforting. No mortal is immune to "flu" When germ-infection makes it due; But treatmcnt for adult or child Will-make the ailment brief and mild. No mortal could, or ever will, Escapc a cold who takes a ehill; But oacli will prompt relief assuro Whou taking Woods' Great Pcppcmiut Cir#.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 14
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