Originally Posted by
CDNSushi
I'm dreadfully curious -- this being 2011, was the cigarette girl ACTUALLY selling REAL cigarettes?
Um, I'm afraid I wasn't focused on her cigarettes...I don't know whether they were real. I suspect not as selling real ones requires a license, tax reporting, etc.--all a little heavy duty for a reenacting impression.
However, my friend who was running the NAAFI had more than a half dozen brands of period cigarettes in stock, all of the cartons were filled with bubble gum cigarettes. He did not have proper permits, licenses, etc. to sell tobacco--he also didn't want to promote smoking where children are in attendance.
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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