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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 306, 20 August 1932, Page 7

Is nicotine poisonous? "Well, what about the case of Alice Crawford, the young domestio, whose terrible death, was recehtly recorded in London. One day the poor girl rushed into her mistress's presence shrieking that she had been poisoned. Five minutes later she' was dead. Appeared that her master lcept a bottle of liquid nicotine in his room, used it to kili weeds. Curiosity evidently prompted deceasod to taste it. Her lips. and tongue were badly burned. And this is the deadly poison so many men absorb into their systems every time they smolce their pipes. Taken that way nicotine is slow but sure — and every pipeful of some tobaccos contains an appreciable quantity of the poison] Why smolte such stuff when you can get New Zealand tobacco anywhere and which, owing to its being toasted, is practically free from nicotine, quite innocuous, and famous for flavour and fragrance? There are only four hrands: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10. But take cave what you buy — there are imitations.