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As smoking rates rise amongst Irish women, Damian Corless looks back at the largely unsuccessful history of banning the deadly weed
Jump to full article: Irish Independent (ie), 2009-06-20
Author: Damian Corless
Intro: But when Germany was defeated, US cigarettes flooded the shattered country. It has been claimed by serious scholars that some troublesome anti-smoking campaigners, still stuck in their old Nazi ways, were assassinated.
Perhaps, but what is beyond doubt is that as part of the Marshall Plan for German reconstruction, the US shipped 93,000 tons of free tobacco to Germany in 1948/49 to help them kick back into the habit.
At the start of the 20th century, with smoking established as a badge of manliness, the industry turned its attention to the planet's next biggest potential market - women. . . .
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