General Motors supplied Chesterfield cigarettes to the troops. They included a small postcard with GM’s address printed in it and asked the soldiers to return the card so GM would know that the cigs were delivered. I have one of the cards from 1943, complete with US Army postmark and a censor mark. Cpl. Clark E. Peach wrote, “Sirs, I received your cigarettes and am enjoying them very much. Thanks a million.”
Good bless 🙌 Chesterfields . They brought the greatest generation fighting some LOVE ❤️. Meanwhile the n*zis were not allowed to smoke as H*tler hated cigarettes, instead they were hopped up on METH pills
As the Author of 'Tobacco of the Emporer', the book in Ian's video, I think this is great! Those cigarettes are 'Hakko' brand cigarettes, and were manufactured by the Japanese army in the Philippines.
When he said the Japanese had cigarettes from Papua New Guinea, I HIGHLY doubt that because that was an Australian colony. In fact my grandfather was conscripted to fight there. They got in but got pushed back out before they got to the capital. They got only a few miles from thr capital and then the real trained army come back from Libya and our numbers pushed them back. Unless the guys at the back were sending out stolen already harvested tobacco which I doubt it, it's highly unlikely any even got into Japanese hands. My grandfather mentioned sunflowers fairly often but not tobacco however in the 70s we had plenty of tobacco growing there and they still grow enough for local use there which cost a lousy 30 cents for a couple handfuls of dry uncut leaf there.
my grandfather dident smoke and during the war was able to actually get food from people in exchange for his cigarette rations even during the famine of the eastern front. He traded a couple boxes of cigarettes for a tub of lard which he managed to survive a winter off of. addiction is a strong motivator
My uncle served in 1970 as a combat engineer. I don't know if he ever smoked, but he did once say over there that if you buy a pack of cigarettes from the locals, you would get marry Jane most times. He said you could trade one pack of smokes for a pack of joints and a Coca-Cola. Have you ever experienced that by chance. I'm curious as to whether he was joking or not. He normally doesn't joke around
When I was stationed in Germany in the early 80s. Our post mess sergeant found cases of WW2 K rats and Red Cross kits that had Hershey bars, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, and Camels. To top it off, he claimed the food was still good.
When I did my military service, a fellow soldier, used plastic box from Norma 308 Win (20 cartridges) and he transfered his cigarettes from the flimsy paperback to this box, and it kept them dry and uncrushed.
Tom, I have some vintage Camel cigarettes in a silver German Naval cigarette case. I will bring to Allentown next week and donate one to your TB research project.
SteveMRE has smoked so many old cigarettes and he's still alive and kicking! I am happy I quit smoking 2 years ago.after rolling my own cigarettes for 30 years straight. Don't miss it, feeling a lot better without smoking.
Yes!!! I opened a pack of players, given out by the Canadian red cross early during the war, and smoked 1, they were perfectly preserved. I made a vid of It, posted on my channel for your entertainment. Title is "Smoking an 82yr old cigarette"
You guys are having fun and sharing very interesting viewpoints and the bonus is I'm smiling and laughing which makes me feel young again as a 74 year old Vietnam veteran, Thank you from the Panhandle of Florida.
I have an unbroken carton of Lucky cigarettes from 1945 that was in my dad's foot locker. He threw it in there after he got back home and it sat in a barn for 60 years along with his gear. Was told it is worth a lot. Question is, who appraises such an item?
Lol I love this channel, hate cigarettes but love my Pipe Tobacco and Cigars, seeing the old packaging and paper styles on these cigs is a treat. Also crazy to me how long tobacco can last even in a non humidity controlled environment.
My granduncle contracted tuberculosis from Philippine cigarettes after WW1 and died early in a VA hospital as a result. He wasn't alone. I have to wonder if Uncle Sam issued cigarettes to discourage foreign consumption and contamination. They used human feces as fertilizer which is prohibited here.
In early 1960, I was in the National Guard in Cleveland , Ohio. We were issued Second world war Lucky Strikes cigarettes with a green package, in the mess package . They were all dried out and stale !
fun watching u smoke from mid 60s i was working with french advisors loaned me a cig strongest ive seen yellow paper and bigger around i was used to pall mall wow.
You should try some WW2 foods if you can, I had a tin of British corned beef from 1917 I found at a Militaria fair and that still tasted okay after 100 years
The characters on the Japanese cigarette read as 八紘, which means eight corners of the world. The word was originally from an ancient Chinese book, Liezi (列子). The Japanese Emperor’s ambition was to rule all corners of the world, hence this phrase 八紘一宇, meaning “all world under one roof”. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakkō_ichiu
The lucky will have green ink from that era. The logo was changed to red at the time due to pigment availability and usage by the u.s. government. Be careful...
Just curious, did you try to rehydrate them. In other words, did you put them in a humidor for at least a day? Modern cigars and cigarettes that are fresh have a little bit of moisture in them. Was the tobacco in those old cigarettes dry and "crackly"? Even today if you leave a pack of cigarettes open for a while they will dry out and give you a "rougher" smoke.
Haha 😂 love this. Fantastic video very creative. Everyone on TH-cam calls it “content” which of course it is… but we need a better word. Makes me feel like a no good TH-cam content consuming junkie
If ya’ll still have these cigarettes, could you send it to Jacob Jones? He’s an avid tobacco collector and reviewer who would love to get his hands on this sorta stuff as he’s reviewed cigarettes from the 60’s before.
I smoked a 1958 Soviet USSR cigarette on the set of K-19: The Widowmaker, they had actual vintage ciggs for the up close shots and let me have a pack! They were very very strong and put me on my ass lol.
Great video, I'm loving your channel, thanks! As you talk about, Forgotten Weapons did a video about opium laced Japanese smokes they sold to the occupied peoples. Crazy stuff. Worst cigs I ever smoked were Mexican Marlboros, also Philippines Marlboros were truly nasty. The Marlboros I got in the Middle East were the real deal though. It was tough to quit while I worked there because they were very low priced but I did it in my 40s.
I live in Leiden where we have our Japan connection in the Siebolt house its a museum where everything old Japan is kept in the Netherlands including 100 tins of 1920s cigarettes I was a regular (the museum was free of entrance I do not know if that stands today?) one of the tins had a tin rot boil so, was it still ok! I'm getting old putting dates to my experiences is rare but the ciggies and my affiliation with the Siebolt house in Leiden got me to meet Emperor Akihito! uh, for no reason but it just happened! and the attention went to the damaged military Japanese tin of ciggies and we opened the tin in full view of a lot of Japanese navy guys and geishas and 4 people smoked the cigarettes including and foremost the emperor was it 2000 or 2001 when he visited our city? I'm not sure... you tell me, I hope! (PS I smoked one too after the parade!) it was a a slightly bitter and cotton mouth and was not of the mold dry rot type which is a knife-sharp taste it did have an oak and pine aftertaste which was redeeming overall not a good smoke but doable! i would happily smoke it as a soldier! in the imperial army if there was nothing else to burn!!! compared to the German cigarette the German was way superior! although greatly mediocre in its day!
General Motors supplied Chesterfield cigarettes to the troops. They included a small postcard with GM’s address printed in it and asked the soldiers to return the card so GM would know that the cigs were delivered. I have one of the cards from 1943, complete with US Army postmark and a censor mark. Cpl. Clark E. Peach wrote, “Sirs, I received your cigarettes and am enjoying them very much. Thanks a million.”
Wow! That’s a cool thing to have. You should upload a short video showing it
🔥
Good bless 🙌 Chesterfields . They brought the greatest generation fighting some LOVE ❤️. Meanwhile the n*zis were not allowed to smoke as H*tler hated cigarettes, instead they were hopped up on METH pills
As the Author of 'Tobacco of the Emporer', the book in Ian's video, I think this is great! Those cigarettes are 'Hakko' brand cigarettes, and were manufactured by the Japanese army in the Philippines.
When he said the Japanese had cigarettes from Papua New Guinea, I HIGHLY doubt that because that was an Australian colony. In fact my grandfather was conscripted to fight there. They got in but got pushed back out before they got to the capital. They got only a few miles from thr capital and then the real trained army come back from Libya and our numbers pushed them back. Unless the guys at the back were sending out stolen already harvested tobacco which I doubt it, it's highly unlikely any even got into Japanese hands. My grandfather mentioned sunflowers fairly often but not tobacco however in the 70s we had plenty of tobacco growing there and they still grow enough for local use there which cost a lousy 30 cents for a couple handfuls of dry uncut leaf there.
your book is not on Amazon???
when in Vietnam in 1970 i didnt smoke ,but you could trade a carton of smokes to the ladies of Saigon
my grandfather dident smoke and during the war was able to actually get food from people in exchange for his cigarette rations even during the famine of the eastern front. He traded a couple boxes of cigarettes for a tub of lard which he managed to survive a winter off of.
addiction is a strong motivator
Same in Germany in the 80s
My uncle served in 1970 as a combat engineer. I don't know if he ever smoked, but he did once say over there that if you buy a pack of cigarettes from the locals, you would get marry Jane most times. He said you could trade one pack of smokes for a pack of joints and a Coca-Cola. Have you ever experienced that by chance. I'm curious as to whether he was joking or not. He normally doesn't joke around
@@jimmymarsh2489 yea you could trade smokes for joints they had all the marijuana but no good tobacco in country they loved the tobacco from the usa.
What for ?
When I was stationed in Germany in the early 80s. Our post mess sergeant found cases of WW2 K rats and Red Cross kits that had Hershey bars, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, and Camels. To top it off, he claimed the food was still good.
When I did my military service, a fellow soldier, used plastic box from Norma 308 Win (20 cartridges) and he transfered his cigarettes from the flimsy paperback to this box, and it kept them dry and uncrushed.
Whenever I was in the field during my time in the Army, I found my ammo pouches were fantasctic storage compartments for my Swisher Sweet cigars.
@@g54b95 Please, be true to me, did You ever made a John Wayne copy, with some one taking a photo? Would love to see that!
Tom, I have some vintage Camel cigarettes in a silver German Naval cigarette case. I will bring to Allentown next week and donate one to your TB research project.
I love how you called Ian out then risked your life by smoking these! 😆You truly are going above and beyond for your subscribers.
I wonder the the people in other offices think of two guys dressed in helmets are doing with questionable cigarettes. 🤣
I've always laughed at Hitler waving off the plate that was put in front of him, and how similar it is to a silent Charlie Chaplin movie scene.
SteveMRE has smoked so many old cigarettes and he's still alive and kicking! I am happy I quit smoking 2 years ago.after rolling my own cigarettes for 30 years straight. Don't miss it, feeling a lot better without smoking.
Yes!!! I opened a pack of players, given out by the Canadian red cross early during the war, and smoked 1, they were perfectly preserved. I made a vid of It, posted on my channel for your entertainment. Title is "Smoking an 82yr old cigarette"
send them to these guys
You guys are having fun and sharing very interesting viewpoints and the bonus is I'm smiling and laughing which
makes me feel young again as a 74 year old Vietnam veteran, Thank you from the Panhandle of Florida.
I have an unbroken carton of Lucky cigarettes from 1945 that was in my dad's foot locker. He threw it in there after he got back home and it sat in a barn for 60 years along with his gear. Was told it is worth a lot. Question is, who appraises such an item?
What color is the logo? Green or red? Green is earlier, red was caused by the government need for the green pigments.
They are indeed worth a good bit, and I would be interested in them.
"Pass it to the left" randy 😆 🤣
This was both interesting and hilarious. Thank you.
The writing on the cigarette in Japanese is Lucky Strike
Lol I love this channel, hate cigarettes but love my Pipe Tobacco and Cigars, seeing the old packaging and paper styles on these cigs is a treat. Also crazy to me how long tobacco can last even in a non humidity controlled environment.
My granduncle contracted tuberculosis from Philippine cigarettes after WW1 and died early in a VA hospital as a result. He wasn't alone. I have to wonder if Uncle Sam issued cigarettes to discourage foreign consumption and contamination. They used human feces as fertilizer which is prohibited here.
In early 1960, I was in the National Guard in Cleveland , Ohio. We were issued Second world war Lucky Strikes cigarettes with a green package, in the mess package . They were all dried out and stale !
There is no way that Randy hasn't smoked in the past.
In the 70's the exchange store uses to pile up unfiltered Lucky Strike ,Pall Mall, Camels, etc. and mark them free to take.
It's so weird seeing soldiers vape on the battlefield now.
if you think about it its actually an advantage as you dont have the glowing embers
@@therideneverends1697 its actually a disadvantage besauce its making you a pussy
No just an led screen and a giant cloud comi g out of nowhere
@@Dibbs.Since when do vapes have a significant LED screen? You mean the 2 tiny digits showing the battery level? Not that many even have that
@@OffGridInvestorshut up
I'm sure someone would part with a (probably opened) pack of Luckys if you promised to put them on a nice tray...
Don’t let Randy fool ya Tom…..his face lit up when you mentioned doobie 😅!!!
great content, need more creators like you, subbed
OoOoh I love Lucky strikes, would love to have some packs from back in the day
Germany was ahead on Everything
fun watching u smoke from mid 60s i was working with french advisors loaned me a cig strongest ive seen yellow paper and bigger around i was used to pall mall wow.
Lol its like opening pandoras box, what about Italian and English or spanish ect love it keep it up fellas 👍
if you sit and ponder about the old man you will see the irony in sharing a cigarette and being worried about diseases.
Holy shvt his english/australian accent is so good!
You should try some WW2 foods if you can, I had a tin of British corned beef from 1917 I found at a Militaria fair and that still tasted okay after 100 years
Share the smokes. Just as the brothers in arms of the axis did.
The characters on the Japanese cigarette read as 八紘, which means eight corners of the world. The word was originally from an ancient Chinese book, Liezi (列子). The Japanese Emperor’s ambition was to rule all corners of the world, hence this phrase 八紘一宇, meaning “all world under one roof”. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakkō_ichiu
A World War One veteran and veteran of Grenada smoking cigarettes.
lol them dirty fella cigs. you guys are lucky to get a chance and smoke those cigs. Thaks for sharing.
What fun! Glad to see the coal skuttle helmut in the sunshine. Thanks.
It is written on the German pack, sale only against return of the empty pack , I think these are privately bought cigarettes
Aye smoke up Johnny !
Uncooked vegetables and fruit ? No wonder he turned evil.
Lighting up one of these right after a sesh with some fine and free Nanking poontang.
Dad smoked Lucky Strikes till he started chewing Red Man.guess they did not have red man in Luzon.
Well, nobody could accuse you of making smoking glamorous, this video needs a t-shirt … but thank you!
The lucky will have green ink from that era. The logo was changed to red at the time due to pigment availability and usage by the u.s. government. Be careful...
Interesting, the early understanding of the relation between cancer and cigarettes. Great video content as usual 👍🙂
It's surprising that scientists from other places did nazi the relation between cancer and cigarettes.
I liked Lucky Strikes, didn't care for Camels.Real nice program.
Awesome channel, thanks!!!
Maybe a few decades off a collector will try out some of Hunter’s crack ?
Nonfilter luckies have a very sweet taste.. love it
My Dad was in the Navy and he smoked Lucky Strikes. He quit smoking by the time I was born though.
Now, when I'm quitting smoking, TH-cam decided to recommend this to me.
Japanese cigarette translation-
"Good Luck With Your Chemotherapy-san"
I noticed that Finns smoked North state cigarettes at Christmas 1941. It even has the nickname "nortti".
13:34 my name is logan and this freaked me out for a split sec 😂
Just curious, did you try to rehydrate them. In other words, did you put them in a humidor for at least a day? Modern cigars and cigarettes that are fresh have a little bit of moisture in them. Was the tobacco in those old cigarettes dry and "crackly"? Even today if you leave a pack of cigarettes open for a while they will dry out and give you a "rougher" smoke.
What a couple of characters
I remember you guys doing that smoking them !!!!
Ooof! Throwing shade at Gun Jesus.
That’s a bold move.
Too Funny! You guys are great
Thank you for going the extra mile!!!! 🚬🚬🚬
His inner Belushi.
Haha 😂 love this. Fantastic video very creative. Everyone on TH-cam calls it “content” which of course it is… but we need a better word. Makes me feel like a no good TH-cam content consuming junkie
"the more you know" thanks, now i don't have to try that. [note to self, German cigs May taste like chocolate]
Lucky Strike Green is what you are looking for in an early war time cigarette
Hysterical!
I found a translation for the Japanese writing on the cigarettes. "lol good luck. You're going to need it"
the evil mustachioed man also had a sweet tooth... not such a healthy diet
it's almost as if he was a human or something
13:33 The Axis of Flavor.
Wow , cool!
I once smoked a whole pack of ww2 french cigarettes, they tasted salty for some reason, but with a lot of nicotine.
You guys have surpassed Ian for sure. His channel has just turned into one big ad for SIG
The goat
I keep my extra packs in the freezer to keep them fresh. not sure if it will help those old ones any or not
If ya’ll still have these cigarettes, could you send it to Jacob Jones? He’s an avid tobacco collector and reviewer who would love to get his hands on this sorta stuff as he’s reviewed cigarettes from the 60’s before.
he’s getting the banzai cancer
I smoked a 1958 Soviet USSR cigarette on the set of K-19: The Widowmaker, they had actual vintage ciggs for the up close shots and let me have a pack! They were very very strong and put me on my ass lol.
Well one tastes like "Chocolate, if the other tastes like "Almonds", don't worry it's too late! Someone will understand I'm sure!
Best to ya',,,,!
The guy on the right is turning into that lizard cop from cheech and chongs lol🤣🤣
Great video, I'm loving your channel, thanks! As you talk about, Forgotten Weapons did a video about opium laced Japanese smokes they sold to the occupied peoples. Crazy stuff. Worst cigs I ever smoked were Mexican Marlboros, also Philippines Marlboros were truly nasty. The Marlboros I got in the Middle East were the real deal though. It was tough to quit while I worked there because they were very low priced but I did it in my 40s.
where do you get these
Do you have to hold it like a joint?
I would like to try Nippon cigs from back then....
That's dirty, 'Low Tar and dirty' :-)
he even knows pas it to the left he's a pro man
WOW ....Just WOW !
10:02 Randy was getting nervous😭
“I don’t know what that’s like (officer)”
Smoking that tojo pack
you should totally talk to stevemre1989! he has also smoked ancient military cigarettes!
when smoking Nazi cigarettes' comes the sudden urge to say "Papers please!"
yeah i remember also hearing something about tens of thousands Japanese soldiers surrendering to americans just to have american cig
Lol is that jim lahey if he was a war hero?😂
grandpa definitely smokes reefer
So that was like a fortune cookie for them ? 😅
Swapping Spit With Randy.Maybe yous can French Kiss next for the viewers of course lmao
Hitler against drinking and smoking but was hyped up on meth LMAO
Are the Japanese rolled in rice paper
On the cigarette package is in the Japanese kanji alphabet language
I live in Leiden where we have our Japan connection in the Siebolt house its a museum where everything old Japan is kept in the Netherlands including 100 tins of 1920s cigarettes I was a regular (the museum was free of entrance I do not know if that stands today?) one of the tins had a tin rot boil so, was it still ok!
I'm getting old putting dates to my experiences is rare but the ciggies and my affiliation with the Siebolt house in Leiden got me to meet Emperor Akihito! uh, for no reason but it just happened! and the attention went to the damaged military Japanese tin of ciggies and we opened the tin in full view of a lot of Japanese navy guys and geishas and 4 people smoked the cigarettes including and foremost the emperor was it 2000 or 2001 when he visited our city? I'm not sure... you tell me, I hope! (PS I smoked one too after the parade!) it was a a slightly bitter and cotton mouth and was not of the mold dry rot type which is a knife-sharp taste it did have an oak and pine aftertaste which was redeeming overall not a good smoke but doable! i would happily smoke it as a soldier! in the imperial army if there was nothing else to burn!!!
compared to the German cigarette the German was way superior! although greatly mediocre in its day!
You don’t eat, drink or smoke while your on amphedamines😂