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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 8, 2 October 1937, Page 19

That famous writer of " thrillors, ' ' Edgar WaljaQe, was a great smoker. Like so many literary men he sought- — and found — inspiration in tobacco. Af(ixed to a wall of his study he had a big pipe-raek holdipg perhaps a dozen pipes, and it w-as his practice before speaking into the dictaphone he always used (he never used a pen) to "load*" three or four pipes so that directly lic had smoked out one he would light anotlier, Avithout interrupting his train of tliought. •Rut tobacco is just as necessary to brain workers in other walks of life. The liarassed business man, the scientist faced with some abstruse problem, and many othcrs iiud solace in the weed. In all sueh cases there is nothing like a good comi'orlable snioke, and no tobacco half so refreshing as "toasted" Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, "Why toasted?" it used to be aslced. Now every smoker knows that toasting eliminates the poisonous nicotine (eommon to all tobaccos) and renders "toasted" pure, siyeet, fragrant and y«ry; pmnfqrting.*-