Cigarettes

From Turtledove

Cigarettes are a popular tobacco product. They are consumed by smoking.

[edit] Cigarettes in Southern Victory

Cigarettes were widely smoked by many people throughout the United States, the Confederate States, Canada, and the Republic of Quebec. They were smoked by both young and old, black and white, powerful and ordinary, and, after the end of the Great War, men and women. They were, however, forbidden by the Mormons for religious reasons.

Cigarettes made in the Confederate States were widely considered to be the best in the world, and when the Second Great War broke out between the CS and US in 1941, smokers in the US complained incessantly about the inferiority of domestically-made cigarettes compared to the Confederate imports they smoked in peacetime. Confederate soldiers often traded cigarettes for canned rations with US soldiers during truces.

[edit] Cigarettes in Worldwar

Cigarettes were popular throughout the world when the Race's Conquest Fleet arrived in 1942. Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt both smoked cigarettes, though Adolf Hitler hated cigarettes and Winston Churchill preferred cigars.

The Race's arrival disrupted cigarette supplies throughout the world, and cigarettes were only regularly available in areas in which they were produced. After the Peace of Cairo, cigarette supplies returned to normal in both the independent human powers and the Race's colonies, and world cigarette consumption was restored along with it. The popularity of cigarettes was only slightly diminished when the Race's doctors discovered they were carcinogenic, much to the surprise of the Race. (Ginger has no such deleterious effects on the physical health of Lizard ginger-tasters.)

[edit] Cigarettes in Crosstime Traffic

Cigarettes and other tobacco products were viewed as disgusting vices by the late 21st century in the home timeline. Crosstime Traffic employees were often horrified by how the habit pervaded other alternates.