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The flats consisted of two small intercommunicating rooms, the outer one opening on to a common hall out of which, on each floor, two bleak corridors with coal-bin, oil-tank, sink, cold-water tap and lavatory (also of the period) served the tenants of the four flats as joint domestic offices

Many employers insisted that their workers not smoke cigarettes, sometimes making not smoking mandatory at the workplace, thinking it reduced output (that assertion would be proven true many decades later with hard data)

Plenty of people still do

Foreign visitors returning home will no longer be able to claim back VAT on shopping in the UK but they will be able to avoid tax on goods sent direct to their overseas address

and newspaper, magazine, and medical journal articles about the promotion and use of candy cigarettes in the US in the 1980s and 1990s