Nicotine

Date: 1935 - 1949

From: National Tobacco Company Ltd :[Nine tobacco advertising cards. 1920-1940s]

By: National Tobacco Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-TOBACCO-NTC-1940s-01

Description: Advertising card showing a circular image at the top with a young woman holding an armful of tobacco leaves. Below is a gold tab with text. Information received from Peter Miles of Katikati Heritage Museum, that the young woman on the card is Ruby Simmonds, born in 1904. BDM lists one Ruby Simmonds born in 1903, and one marrying an Ollie (Ole) Johansen in 1921, but these may not relate to the same woman. Riverhead Gold tobacco was produced in the Napier factory of the National Tobacco Company from 1923, using tobacco grown at Riverhead, Auckland. However the image on this card was published as an advertisement in 1945; see back cover of Stan Lawson production "Let's be happy" at Eph-A-CABOT-Variety-1945. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on card, 502 x 258 mm (irregular)

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0024692

Description: Cartoon showing past and present battlegrounds for New Zealand. Then the battlegrounds were Greece, Crete, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Italy. Now the battlegrounds are nicotine, alcohol, obesity, sugar, diabetes, fast foods, and poverty. Refers to ANZAC Day commemorations, and current health issues in New Zealand. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1939 - 1942

By: National Tobacco Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-TOBACCO-1940-01

Description: Blotter advertising a brand of tobacco produced in Napier shows at top left the front and back of a yellow packet of ten Riverhead Gold cigarettes (with a portrait of a smiling young woman holding the harvested tobacco leaves), and at top right the front and back of a red packet of ten "Desert Gold" cigarettes (with a portrait of the famous racehorse "Desert Gold" on the packet). In the lower left and right corners are ashtrays, each with a smoking cigarette liying in the groove on the side of the tray. There is an assertion that toasted cigarettes are healthier and safer because they contain less nicotine. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on blotter, 284 x 440 mm.

Date: 1936 - 1939

By: National Tobacco Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-TOBACCO-1936-01

Description: Blotter advertising a brand of tobacco produced in Napier shows a humorous illustration of a woman in high heels and a frilly apron, using a rolling pin to roll her own tobacco on a small table. She is smoking a cigarette in a cigarette holer. A black cat sits up smiling beneath the table; he wears a sign around his neck: "It's toasted!". The floor and the woman's skirt have a checkered pattern. Date estimated from the similarity of wording in newspaper advertising of the mid-late 1930s. "Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser", 30 October 1936, page 2 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on blotter, 284 x 440 mm.