• @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    56 months ago

    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!?!?!

    • EleventhHour
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      36 months 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.

    • Flying Squid
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      26 months ago

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