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Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1930, Page 8

“If nicotine could be extracted from iobacco, smoking would bo as harmless as’ fresh air.” Thus wrote an eminent English scientist some years ago. Since then science has discovered that toasting the tobacco leaf—an elaborate process—eliminates so much of tile nicotine that the balance is of no consequence, so that smoking can be indulged in oven immoderately and leave no ill after-effects. That discovery is of the first importance, because nicotine, 'ono of the deadliest poisons known if S absorbed oven in minute quantities into the system daily through the pipe, must, ..amner or later, affect heart or nerves. Now the quantity of nicotine in the imported brands of tobacco is invariably large, while the toasted New Zealand tobaccos contain next to none. Note that there are only four brands of toasted: lliverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10. All four are harmless to smokers. All are remarkable for their unrivalled flavour and peculiarly delicious fragrance. But ’ware imitations!—Advt.

SOVIET COINS. MINTED IN BRITAIN. LONDON, August 15. The Commissary of Finance has suggested that the Soviet should order coins from the British Royal ( Mint to meet. Russia’s small change crjsis, according to exchanges from Riga. The Commissary says that the Soviet mint is unable to supply high-class coins at short notice. Moreover, his suggestion is a friendly gesture to Britain .As people are still hoarding silver to buy bread and potatoes from the peasants, who ignore paper money, the .Soviet has directed co-operative organisation in the big cities to issue goods only against paper money,