Dear Smith and Wesson Forum i have a question about world war one. What brands of cigarettes did servicemen smoke during world war one? any and all help in answering this would be greatly appreciated sincerely and respectfully mg357 a proud member of the Smith and Wesson Forum

Try this link: Cigarette Pack Collectors' Association - The Camels Are Coming, however I bet most US troops still rolled their own.

Also try usmilitariaforum dot com. Somebody there will know the answer.

Hi:
My Father was a "Horse Soldier" (Cavalry) of that era. He smoked "Hand Rolled" cigarettes which was a small cloth bag of loose tobacco with papers and you rolled your own smoke.
Hope this helps,
Jimmy

Did you guys know the original name for Camel cigarettes was "Kaiser Wilhelm" cigarettes?? It really was. Then they changed it at the last minute because of world political problems.

I was taught that in one of my college marketing classes. They were discussing the problem with naming items with the name of celebrities, politicians, or just people who are still alive. It is a marketing no-no to name items after a living person. But as you can tell that is no longer the case(telling my age). Tom.

Here is some WWII Cigarette info/trivia.

Before WWII the Germans discovered that Cigarettes caused Cancer.

Hitler hated smoking, never let anyone smoke around him, and actually banned smoking in several places.

It was against the Law for a pregnant German woman to smoke. If caught she recieved a warning. Ifg caught again she would be jailed until after the baby was born. They knew smoking was bad for the baby and Hitler did not want the future of the Fatherland to suffer pre birth problems...


However, in the USA EVERY ration pack issued to the troops had some cigarettes in it....

How the American Tobacco industry kept the "Cancer" a secret for so long is a mystery to me...

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Cannot help you with WWI, but here is a (copyrighted) photo of mine (WWII).

Disclaimer; looking at this photograph for an extended period of time may cause cancer.

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Good Morning:
As another note - My Father used a tobacco brand "Bugle" or "Bugler".
Later this company had a hand operated machine that a smoker would put the small sheet of paper with the loose tobacco in and operated a crank/lever and the machine would roll the cigaretee automatically.
I remember my Mother using this machine to roll cigarettes for my Father before He went on duty.
Jimmy

Jimmy I know a guy that lives in Brush Creek that still uses a machine to roll his cigarettes. Don

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I remember back in the early 1970's they advetised a rolling macine on TV as a way to save money. Roll your own was cheaper.