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Description
Mr. Golden discusses how addictive cigarettes eventually became to the prisoners, to the extent that even the malnourished and seriously ill would trade food for smokes.
Transcription
There were certainly cigarettes that got through in bulk and all mildewed by the time they were distributed and some parcels and some, and we discovered how addictive tobacco is. Those of us who served in the army, in Prisoner of War camps. We don’t have to be told by scientists or doctors, we know about how addictive cigarettes are. We had starving people who were suffering from serious deficiencies, beri beri, electric feet, pellagra, sores that wouldn’t heal, ulcers that would go on and on and on, who would trade their food for cigarettes.