With the amount of tobacco use in this series--even having someone hand FDR a cigar right after he's been coughing!--does anyone but me wonder whether the tobacco industry helped fund the series? And to the argument that a lot of people smoked in this era, sure. A lot of white people openly expressed racism in this period too. How much openly expressed racism did you hear in the series? How important to the story was having everyone smoke?
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With the amount of tobacco use in this series--even having someone hand FDR a cigar right after he's been coughing!--does anyone but me wonder whether the tobacco industry helped fund the series? And to the argument that a lot of people smoked in this era, sure. A lot of white people openly expressed racism in this period too. How much openly expressed racism did you hear in the series? How important to the story was having everyone smoke?