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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5039, 13 October 1926, Page 1

Sherlock Holmes, the fam.6us detective of fiction, smoked string black shag tobacco and derived inspiration from it when puzzling over some problem of more than ordinary complexity. Shag is too full-flavoured for many smokers. It contains a Jot of nicotine, and excess ot nicotine is a bad thing. The habitual use of such tobacco is bound sooner or later to affect the consumer injuriously. Unfortunately, practically all imported tobaccos are heavily ■with nicotine. And in that respect they differ essentially from ’our New Zealand grown tobaccos, the comparatively small amount of nicotine which constitutes one of thleir chief recommendations. Also—.and this ip important—they are 'all toasted, and toasting brings out the flavour of the leaf in a most remarkable way. There are several brands of this popular tobacco. Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog label), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head), full strength.. Each of them has its merits. Thnt seasoned smoker, Sherlock Holmes, would doubtlessly prefer the las,t-named.*