I can understand trying it and then deciding it wasn’t worth it or something. But they never stopped making cigarettes and in ample supply too. I remember reading that during the collapse of the 90s America were shipping aid packages of cigarettes because privatised companies couldn’t keep up with Russian demand for cigarettes and the cigarette rationing was eroding regime support.
and then stalin cancelled it. maybe just to make more money and not cos it was unpopular? i dunno.
I can understand trying it and then deciding it wasn’t worth it or something. But they never stopped making cigarettes and in ample supply too. I remember reading that during the collapse of the 90s America were shipping aid packages of cigarettes because privatised companies couldn’t keep up with Russian demand for cigarettes and the cigarette rationing was eroding regime support.