[Leisler]

As the Nazis, like Kings, et al, viewed people as crop, they were the first to legislate against tobacco. Get this, they wouldn't even send cigs to the eastern front. Bad for the soldiers health don't you know.

[aristeides]

The Nazis didn't send cigs to the Eastern front? I didn't know that. I think I remember German soldiers smoking in Eastern front movies like Cross of Iron. Are those movies inaccurate on this point? Or did the soldiers find a way to smuggle cigarettes? I imagine they overran enough Russian positions to be able to smoke papirosy, if that was all they could get, at least in the first couple of years of Barbarossa. Soldiers like stronger smokes anyway. When I was stationed in Berlin, I smoked Gaulloises.