1917 - Tobacco

Tobacco

U.S. cigarette production reaches 35.3 billion, up from below 18 million in 1915. Camels have 30 to 40 percent of the U.S. market 4 years after their introduction. Gen. Pershing cables Washington, "Tobacco is as indispensable as the daily ration; we must have thousands of tons of it without delay," but V. I. Lenin finds tobacco smoke intolerable and forbids smoking on the train that takes him to Petrograd.