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Should you trust that doctor? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was kept alive by his steady diet of 200 cigarettes per day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

HOW DID HE EVEN GET CIGARETTES!!!

They are starving and eating paper but somehow they kept tobacco plants and all the mechanisms for drying and curing them, which would have taken enough resources to keep hundreds of people alive!?!?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A guy like Cottle buys cigarettes for a decade in advance.

Hell, even Col. Tigh was smoking rollies by the end of the series. Cottle was set for life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I always used to joke that one of the ships in the fleet was a cargo ship full of cigarettes.