Economy
Why chocolate and cigarettes became wartime currency
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
When your national currency is collapsing under artillery fire, you naturally pivot to the gold standard of nicotine and sugar. Allied troops found that Hershey bars and Lucky Strikes were universally accepted across Europe, holding their value vastly better than whatever hyper-inflated paper money the local governments were trying to print. Addiction, it turns out, is the most robust economic baseline.
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