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A 1918 Policy Devised to Calm Soldiers’ Nerves Sparked a Bad Habit That Was Difficult to Stop .

[DoodleBob]

Interesting article. I'm not suggesting that smoking isn't harmful, but the fact of the matter is that there ARE trade-offs in life. Maybe the smokes helped the soldiers, and given the increasing incidence of PTSD and the ensuing carnage maybe we'd have been better off keeping the choice to smoke with the soldiers.

Relatedly, on the trade-offs of the smoking abstinence movement, I'm just sayin'...