S2E30: How First World War Made Smoking Popular

Cigarette smoking is injurious to health. But it was once promoted as a stress reliever.
During the First World War in particular, cigarette smoking was in fact encouraged as a morale booster. Cigarette companies published patriotic advertisements, women were exhorted to gift cigarettes to their men in the trenches and war time import restrictions were lifted selectively for tobacco leaves.

First World War may be one of the reasons smoking became wildly popular during the first half of the twentieth century.
HistoryChatter examines some of the ways in which First World War promoted smoking as patriotism in practice.

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