An old Auckland identity tolls how walking up Queen Street the other •afternoon he was accented by a shabbily dressed elderly man who asked f°r a ‘trifle.’ “Want a drink, eh?” que-rM the ‘identity. “No” was the reply, I want a smoke. A month since I had one. If you smoke yourself you’ll know howl I feel.” Convinced that the man spoke the truth the old identity handed over a shilling. He had been there himself and knew from personal experience what “tobacco-hunger'’ is like. Non-smokers who condemn smoking as a bad habit don’t know much. Tobacco has cheered and solaced millo-’-S in the battle of l'f®, and pi° vided :it is pure and good it is really beneficial. Probably the purest tobacco, by the way, is our own New Zealand "toasted.’’ Where will y°n get a mild aromatic like fliverhead Gold, a medium flavoured like Navy Cut No. 3 or Cavendish, a full strength I'ke Cut Plug No. 10? And thanks to | their being roasted when manufactured j there's next to no nicotine in any o i them I—Advt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 2
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180Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 2
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