statue of liberty smoking a cigarette cartoon hi-res stock photography and images Photo by Bárbara Martínez (@barbarita_ole)

Tobacco is a taboo word nowadays but, as Richard Klein points out in Cigarettes are Sublime, Americans gripped in the current hysteria have forgotten the affectionate identification of the doughboys uniform with Lucky Strike Green, and the European hopes and the American pride associated, in 1914, with the promise that the Camels are coming. Klein goes on to quote from a pleading letter written by General Pershing, commander of the American troops, to the Minister of War in 1918: You ask what we need to win this war

New Zealand is known for having some pretty steep prices when it comes to cigarettes, and thats largely down to taxes and government policies aimed at discouraging smoking

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Reddit users have been particularly vocal about this, as evidenced by the best reactions below

8 May 2006