Eisenhower's men smoked a million packs of cigarettes a day, rising to 84 million packs for December 1944, the month of Hitler's doomed but trauma-imposing Bulge offensive.

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Even in the Second World War, when senior officers had it easier than their predecessors, General Dwight Eisenhower was so consumed by the job that he smoked four packs of cigarettes and drank fifteen cups of coffee a day.

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