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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5478, 23 September 1929, Page 1

In fining a man for throwing an empty bottle out of a car, the shattered fragments littering the highway to the danger of traffic, a Dunedin magistrate remarked that he found it difficult to understand the mentality of people who committed such irresponsible acts. The incident is merely an illustration of the kind of vandalism which induces certain utterly stupid individuals to strike matches on polished walls, throw cigarette-ends into dry grass, cut their initials on public seats, and leave picnic grounds littered with paper, banana-skins, and other remnants of open-air repasts. Fundamentally, such acts proceed from a lack of consideration for other people —property owners and the general public. Does smoking shorten life ? Tobacco haters say “yes.” But the deaths of centenarian smokers, so frequently chronicled in the papers, tell another story. So does the fact that many doctors are heavy smokers. The harmfulness or otherwise of smoking depends entirely on the tobacco. Some brands are deadly if you smoke them regularly. Full of nicotine ! Most imported tobaccos are like that. Our New Zealand brands, on the other hand, are almost free from nicotine. You can smoke them all day, and every day, with impunity. They are the product of the National Tobacco Co., Ltd. (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry), and are the only toasted tobaccos, which process absorbs most of the nicotine, and thus purified, sweeter, cooler, or more fragrant tobaccos money cannot buy. They never “bite,” and burn to the last particle. There are various brands. Special favourites : “Cut Plug No. 10” (rich, dark, and full-flavoured), “Cavendish” (sporting mixture), “Navy Cut No. 3” (a very choice blend, medium), and “Riverhead Gold” (a mellow aromatic). AH toasted and, therefore, safe.*