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Cigarettes are pretty ubiquitous, especially in Europe, but that wasn't always the case. More than a century ago a cigarette smoker would've been considered criminally inclined, immoral or worse - but smoking today has been normalised, why? War has a lot to do with that shift and this video intends to explain how war helped spread the habit across the globe.

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0:00 Intro
2:40 Obscurity
5:03 The Cigarette Goes to War
10:22 Marketing the Cigarette
13:26 Into the Stratosphere
19:23 The Echoes of War
22: 15 The Cigarette Burns