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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1931, Page 4

A rare old print,. picked up for a song in an Auckland second-hand shop the other day, shows a physician of 1 the period in wig, long coat, knee- ] breeches, and three-cornered hat, en- ! tering a sick chamber, the knob of his cane pressed against his nose. The | cane was an important item of every I Doctor's outfit in days of old. The hollow knob of ivory, silver or gold, conI tained snutf as a protection against inI fection. Perhaps that is why Doctors I to-day are generally great smokers. But j knowing the deadly nature of nicotine they are careful to select a tobacco as free from the poisoii as possible. Xo difficulty about that—in New Zealand, because our tobacco (unlike the imported which : s generally full of nicotine) is toasted in the process of manufacture, and thus rendered safe to smoke to any extent. To toasting, also, it owes its unequalled flavour and incomparable bouquet. There are onlv four brands: .Piverhead 'Cold, Xavy Cut Xo. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug Xo. 10,—Xcivt,