This little filler from the Aug. 17, 1940 Lancaster Eagle-Gazette tells us that around 160 billion cigarettes were produced and presumably smoked during, say, 1939. A bit of googling reveals that this ...

When Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant,” following the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attacks, he probably should have said “a sleeping, ...