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Rotorua Morning Post, 29 August 1931, Page 6

A rare old print, picked up for a song in an Auckland second-hand shop the other day, shows a physician of the period in wig, long coat, kneehreeches and three-cornered hat, entering a sick chamber, the knob of his cane pressed against his nose. The cane was an important item .of every doctor's outflt in days of old. The hollow knob of ivory, silver or gold, contained snuff as a protection against infection. Tobacco is certainly a wonderful disinfectant. Perhaps that iswwhy doctors to-day are generally great smokers. But knowing the deadly nature of nicotine they are careful to select a tobacco as free from the poison as possible. No difficulty about that — in New Zealand, because our tobacco (unlike the imported which is 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 only'four brands: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Flug No. 10. 197