My grandfather was an East German landowner, impoverished when the Russian army came in 1945. He fled to West Germany and left the family with relatives while he went to Hamburg (which at that point was little more than a pile of rubble). He stayed there alone and started selling pots and pans. He did well and made millions.
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My mother died of lung cancer a few weeks ago. She smoked all her life, from the age of 12. She said they started smoking as refugees after the war in Germany when the black market had it that food was scarce but cigarettes very cheap, and nicotine relieves the symptoms of hunger.
In the 1950s, when the research came out linking smoking with lung cancer, she carried on because actually she liked smoking and that stuff about the war wasn’t really it at all. She carried on and didn’t stop until the doctor told her she had to, which was when she was about 65. By that time her body was so dependent that she had alarming withdrawal symptoms and the doctor really had to tell her to start again and stop gradually.
As children we used to watch her sit down stressed and miserable and light a cigarette and breathe deeply and say ‘Ah now that’s better’ and we thought the cigarette was making her feel good, but actually it was the lack of cigarettes making her feel bad.
When she had a cigarette she just felt like a non-smoker feels all day long anyway.