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Kōrero: Smoking

Three Castles advertisement

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Three Castles advertisement

The British firm of W.D. & H.O. Wills promoted their roll-your-own tobacco through associations with British manly traditions, such as castles and cricket playing. Roll-your-owns remained a popular way of smoking among men rather than women.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Auckland Star. 11 January 1941, p. 11

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Smoking – Cigarettes rule: 1900–1960, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/38974/three-castles-advertisement (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012.