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Post by illinoisfisherman on May 6, 2024 6:36:00 GMT -5
I have always wondered how and why people begin using tobacco?
My father told me that they were issued cigarettes with their rations in WW2. I guess there is a “lift” obtained from tobacco and the government wanted the soldiers to be more effective? I suppose that was before all of the bad effects of tobacco were realized.
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Post by One Man Gang on May 6, 2024 7:04:24 GMT -5
The Krauts were dosing their soldiers with meth amphetamines in WW2 in order to make them march longer, fight harder, eat less, sleep less...
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Post by cadman on May 6, 2024 7:14:07 GMT -5
I have always wondered how and why people begin using tobacco? My father told me that they were issued cigarettes with their rations in WW2. I guess there is a “lift” obtained from tobacco and the government wanted the soldiers to be more effective? I suppose that was before all of the bad effects of tobacco were realized. it provided a relief from the mental and physical stress. Nicotine causes a sense of relaxation when it first hits the body. It was why the military gave them out to soldiers. My dad started smoking when he went into the army during WW2.
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Post by tonyroma on May 6, 2024 7:16:13 GMT -5
Just about everybody in my family smoked. Always a big ashtray on the living room coffee table. Back in the day when you could smoke in the car with your kids in it and not be considered a monster. Perception on smoking has changed drastically over the last 30 year.
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Post by gardawg on May 6, 2024 7:46:53 GMT -5
Cigarettes were not invented during World War I, but were popularized during the conflict and became a staple of smoking in the twentieth century. Easier to use than pipe tobacco and cheaper than cigars, cigarettes were ideal for the trenches. They masked the smell of death and decay, kept nervous men calm, and were regularly given to wounded and dying soldiers. Tobacco was valued as a wartime necessity, a fact that the tobacco industry seized upon in its advertising that featured soldiers, flags, and all the trappings of a triumphal nation making the world safe for democracy. At home, tobacco funds were established to “send smokes to the boys”, eventually sending 16 billion cigarettes as part of relief by the war’s end. The First World War made America, and it established the cigarette as the prime mover for the tobacco industry. The cigarette would result in one of the lasting wounds that marred those who fought. Prior to the war, incidences of lung cancer were rare and extraordinary occurrences. In the decades after the war, the disease became more common and affected veterans, who took up smoking during the Great War, disproportionately.
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Post by swampdog on May 6, 2024 8:02:42 GMT -5
Interesting. I know why I didn’t, and was raised in a smoking family.
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Post by gandy on May 6, 2024 8:20:03 GMT -5
To be cool like the other kids. 1st use gets you a little high, tolerance builds fast then it's calming effect hooks you and addiction seals the deal. I didn't mark or commemorate my quit smoking date. Smoked from 15ish yo to early 40's
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Post by illinoisfisherman on May 6, 2024 8:22:14 GMT -5
Interesting. I know why I didn’t, and was raised in a smoking family. I didn’t because my younger brother used to eat mom and dad’s cigarettes and lick the ashtray clean. The sight of him sitting there with the ashes and cigarettes running down his face made me sick. I couldn’t eat a meal with a cigarette in sight until I was nearly 30. Probably the best thing my brother ever did for me! 🤢🤮
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Post by bswiv on May 6, 2024 8:40:38 GMT -5
"How can I tell that my temper would have been as sweet or my companionship as agreeable if I had abjured from my youth the goddess Nicotine?"
Sir Winston Churchill.......a LONG time ago. People like drugs.......and we could run down that rabbit hole a ways......even shift over to political aspects of it as we argue about the "tobacco settlements"........
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Post by cadman on May 6, 2024 8:55:06 GMT -5
"How can I tell that my temper would have been as sweet or my companionship as agreeable if I had abjured from my youth the goddess Nicotine?"Sir Winston Churchill.......a LONG time ago. People like drugs.......and we could run down that rabbit hole a ways......even shift over to political aspects of it as we argue about the "tobacco settlements"........ Start a topic in politics if you want to discuss the politics.
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Post by Zif on May 6, 2024 8:58:15 GMT -5
It was definitely promoted in hollywood with all the tough guys and heroes smoking. Also, Edward Bernays the father of modern day marketing was hired to start an advertising campaign to entice women by presenting it as sexy and independent. Most people are very malleable and gullible when it comes to psychological manipulation.
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Post by tonyroma on May 6, 2024 9:28:19 GMT -5
If you see footage from old 50’s baseball games dudes were smoking in the dugout.
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Post by gardawg on May 6, 2024 11:29:49 GMT -5
smoking in a race car is one thing but smoking during a motorcycle race is really hard core !!!
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Post by bswiv on May 6, 2024 11:31:14 GMT -5
"How can I tell that my temper would have been as sweet or my companionship as agreeable if I had abjured from my youth the goddess Nicotine?"Sir Winston Churchill.......a LONG time ago. People like drugs.......and we could run down that rabbit hole a ways......even shift over to political aspects of it as we argue about the "tobacco settlements"........ Start a topic in politics if you want to discuss the politics. Didn't want to go politics on it.... which was why I phrased it that way.... p
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Post by TRTerror on May 6, 2024 18:23:49 GMT -5
My C Rations had a small , like a 5 er pack of smokes in them. Early 1970's.
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