There used to be cigarettes in military field rations

But I'm guessing that was intended to be taken as a painkiller. What practical purpose do cigarettes and coffee serve? Maybe the coffee was to prevent you from falling asleep or something? Cigarettes, do they increase concentration or something? Or maybe the coffee and tobacco companies put it in there to make sure people didn't come back from the military rid of their caffeine and nicotine addictions?

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They still have instant coffee packets in MREs. No ciggies though.
Cigarettes only have a logarithmic curve of bad shit that caps out at 50% chance of tobacco related illness killing you. Take your chances goy and keep funneling that tax money to the state.

>send men into high stress situations
>give them something known to calm nerves
What's the problem here?

It suggests they’re good for you

They also issues morphine and .gif related

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Cigarettes are a nootropic and relieve stress.

hate this faggot

Nice!

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Only fags pay taxes.

Or it helps with stress.

Intended use≠use
WWI vets where horribly addicted to morphine.

The state of Sweden for not immediately thinking this

Oh hey, Marlboro. I'm in the process of quitting right now.

Why else do you think they're so expensive? All good things are. It's a vacation for your lungs.

Cigarettes are a relaxant, in most of the conflicts where they were issued, your expected lifespan meant you weren't going to see any downsides.

The military has always had a fairly relaxed attitude to issuing drugs if it gives any advantage at all. I think go pills are still in wide usage.

Probably not, most of these e-celebs are just faggot civilians who think they have actually done something or are doing something. If you choose not to serve then you're a LARPing faggot who doesn't want to be a real man. Service should be compulsory,society would be better for it.

Malboro was a housewife smoke when rations still had them. Ther were usually camels or chesterfields.

Amphetamine has been legal for our pilots for up to 72 hours for a few years now because they we taking it anyway.

Its for morale. A handfuls of cigarettes and a packet of instant coffee costs next to nothing and goes a long way towards giving some sense of normalcy and comfort. Bad morale means soldiers who don't give a shit at best, and Vietnam at worst.

I genuinely don’t know of a single thing that could make anyone dislike steve, nonetheless hate him. Fuck off, cunt.

Only for pilots as far as I know. They get modafinil for long flights. Although it's different as most enlisted can just go to sick call and get prescriptions. I kick myself in the ass for not begging the doctors for test e or something similar. If they will issue hrt for tranny's why couldn't I get test. In my four years I only went to sick call once and they had to force me. I had a blood vessel rupture in my eye and they thought it was pink eye.

>Nescafe

It was literally there as a creature comfort for grunts. Grunts, not faggot ass POGs

You a driver?

>goes a long way towards giving some sense of normalcy and comfort
only because people are addicted

>society would be better for it.
Who's society? Fighting in jungles and deserts has gained us anything.

Because it would calm you down.

Yes, should have said for pilots and SF only, but it seems completely reasonable to me if the alternative is getting shot down or crashing from tiredness

No, I was just aware of it when they publicised it becoming legal. Knew they were doing it anyway.

Most people smoked when it was part of rations, dumb dumb.

Yep, those were the days.

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It's 72 hours here as far as I saw because weapons accuracy fell too much after 3 days. Not like we've got guys running sorties that constantly all too often now anyway.

youtu.be/hmdLnPGZ0Rc

you should check out his channel :)

military rations from allover the world and any era he could have his hands on

youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA

interesting to watch are the oldest rations and the pilot survival rations.

Pizza MRE
youtu.be/u_sY-nJ179U

or to trade or give away to the civilians

>suggests cigarettes are good for you
"Good" is a broad term but in the context of a warzone the short term benefits of nicotine highly outweigh the potential negatives. Hell even enemy troops were known to offer POWs cigarettes as a show of compassion. They help you chill the fuck out and can stop anxiety attacks.

i've seen this in a how do they do it episode on discovery channel... it's disgusting lol

Cigarettes and caffeine are appetite suppressants. Same reason most people do chew

The British military used to buy cocaine to distribute among the men.

Steve is one of the best things in the internet, you mong.

Cigarettes are a stimulant.

What's wrong with that? Have you ever even had a bad day? Multiply your worst day times ten and add a bunch of bullshit working details and enemy fire. Yeah, it can suck. Back when I was a smoker, I used to make my gun truck driver keep a carton of smokes in a zip lock bag and label them Emergency Backup Smokes and keep it with the vehicle's tool bag/driver bag. Fuck being out of the wire without smokes. You expect me to be a heart breaker and life taker, better have some fucking smokes when I'm flex cuffing insurgents after a running gun battle or that IED that just blew my HMMWV's wheels off and gave me another TBI
How is that in any way, shape, or form related to making a man a better person? Who cares where you get sent, it's about the discipline and outright manliness it instills, or used to. It's about serving your country and community and putting things before yourself. Civilians are lazy and entitled faggots, I don't understand why you faggots haven't all served, you wannabe RWDS LARPing faggots. When the shit hits the fan, you'll get the cross too. Don't be surprised when groups of veterans overrun your shitty little battlements and make dick and rape jokes while admonishing you for your shitty Fudd guns and gear and your girlfriend starts developing Stockholm syndrome for the real men in the room. So go on with your shitty attitude and poor life choices, I'm a school trained infantryman and medic in the civilian world. What skills do you have? Epic shit posting on r*ddit with your based niggers and tranny degeneracy?

Maybe you should hustle as hard as you hate.

See

Because I hate chads. I prefer to see Styxhexenhammer666 unbox rations, although I'm jealous of his intelligence too.

I fully support the right of active combat troops to use stimulants that are illegal to the civilian population. A squad of marines doing rails of cocaine would be capable of Spartan level k/d ratios.

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what the fuck did you just say to me you little bitch?

You're a gigantic faggot. Soft as a sock full of mayonnaise. Is this what incels call, "mogging" or whatever?

Who the fuck cares, he makes great videos that are entertaining and honest. And by your reasoning then ALL men should waste years of their life doing service wasting taxpayers $, increasing the defense budget, and essentially cucking themselves to government control rather than have their own free will to do whatever the fuck they want.

jeez, you truly are a fucking imbecile.

Nice try faggot, I'm not a wannabe SEAL. I went to paramedic school with a former SEAL, those dudes are squared the fuck away. I'm just a shitty plain Jane infantryman who's done a couple things

A simple cigarette goes a long way for a solider who just watched his buddy turn into ropey puddy after stepping on a land mine.

Hes explained in the videos that most men in wartime era smoked...and smoked a LOT, the same way they all wore hats. The ration of cigs was something less for the soldier to be worried about, because in the high stress situation they might have been, going through a nicotine withdrawal in the midst of it would have been something negative to the situation as well.

And you're a butthurt faggot who hates that other people are better than you. I bet you don't even try, you just drift through life making excuses and never even bothering trying to better yourself outside of making more money to feed your degenerate ways

So what
We had meth to boost our shit
>finnish pagan deathgod if anyone remembers
In Nam they chewed on C4 cuz it made you high

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In WW1 You could send you relative a care package with cocaine and heroin if you wanted to.
My sink is knocking at the door, brb.

>my sink is knocking
What, Bruce?

they had real men back then

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>What practical purpose do cigarettes and coffee serve?
When you are stuck in a trench, flooded with a mixture of rain water, urine, blood and feces, being bombarded by fragmentation shells, gas and bullets, you will understand how incredibly relaxing it is to smoke a ciggarrete in order to get a momentary relief in the midst of chaos.

Shellshock and mental stress breakdown kill just as much as the bullets, gas and bombs.

probably a combination of "sister" and "chink"

if you buy cigarettes, you actually pay taxes even if you're on a ton of gibs.

I need some of this shit for my stockpile and my 130 lb girl body

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My dad was a 19 year old Sgt by 1950 and began smoking two years later because they told him it would help him relax. It did. Smoked until he was 55 after 35.6 years in the Army. Lived to 85. Died from lung disease/cancer.

Is that like Dexedrine? I know they gave Air Force pilots Dexedrine back in the 60's/70's.

Lol, I don't know why but I laughed more than probably appropriate

Women probably love Steve. I imagine him and myself in a room with a few women, then how they are all drooling over him and treating me like shit. Fuck you unevolved ape.

>Lived to 85
>Did not suicide 5 years later due to post stress traumatic disorder
Imagine that.

I'm not in a competition with this guy, why would I care? I'm also married, so I wouldn't in be a room full of women... My point was that he's a civilian who lives vicariously through men like me and that's gay.

When the faggot boomers were kids you could smoke on planes, in hospitals, in the elevator, in the 80s it was still socialally acceptable to smoke with your kids in the car

Its amazing that one generation was brainwashed to love smoking, while todays generation hates it, the propaganda is strong

PTSD is a meme, yes its real but it also was over diagnosed and self diagnosed by a bunch of whiney POGs who never left the wire and pretended to have it for sympathy on Facebook

i think its meth but i don't remember exactly

Wrong war you dumb br monkey. The modern ration didn't come together until WW2. There was little to no trench fighting in WW2.

the jews dont call you cattle for no reason

Correct, that's why I vape nicotine salts. If you don't want to look fagish try the Juul and refill the cartridges with decent flavored salts.

Also you'll enjoy this story

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimo_Koivunen

Wow that sounds awful. Remind me never to go to india

PTSD only affects weak men. If you can't get over it then you don't want to be over it.

Back in the 80's, every fast food joint had little tin ashtrays on every table. You could walk into convenience stores, lobbies, malls etc with a lit cig in your mouth and unless it was posted "no smoking" no one gave a shit.

Basically what I said

Yes. Now it's modafinil which as far as I've read is smoother and less euphoric. Most hardcore guys I ran into where basically straight edge and didn't even like drinking the coffee in the MREs.

Fun fact, there was significantly less cancer and lung disease in smokers in the mid 60s. Tobacco companies made a lot of changes to the composition of the the cigarettes composition and the tobacco crop to make them more addictive among other things. There was a reason tobacco usage was considered more of a vice like cursing than a public health crisis 100 years ago.

Instant coffee but it has to be TYPE 2 YOU FUCKING PLEBS.

>Yes goys smoke,smoke

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Ok.

Yeah and the Germans were on the prototype for crystal meth when they were doing blitzkreig

PTSD is usually caused by ambushes. So to claim that people getting mortared wouldn't get it is silly. Yes it is over diagnosed as the military is a great way to offload drugs and experiment with them with limited liability to the company.

and his pupils are dilated to this day

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>vape
Yes
>nic salts
You dumbass