[DOC] [TLE] Was Cigarette-Money in World War II POW Camps a Case of ... [PAR] Apr 17, 2013 ... But unfortunately for our commodity money theorists, the POW camp story is .... 
the values of two otherwise unrelated items, ie, how many apples is an orange 
worth, .... Since we can only find these unusual sorts of examples, this ... The 
cigarettes were used by ordinary people, while the US soldiers were... [DOC] [TLE] Commodity money - Wikipedia [PAR] These items were sometimes used in a metric of perceived value in conjunction 
to one another, in various commodity valuation or price system economies. [DOC] [TLE] Cigarettes and the Emergence of Commodity Money - Government ... [PAR] Sep 21, 2014 ... People in this POW camp aren't engaging in trade with the outside world. ... Early 
on, these prices were imperfect; the market required some ... While this is 
certainly better than having no trade at all, exchange .... I were rarely used for 
trading. .... Cigarettes as Money in Post-World War II Germany (1945-48). [DOC] [TLE] The following account of a World War II Prisoner of War Camp ... [PAR] For the prisoner of war, comforts of material goods came largely through the 
issue of Red Cross parcels. These contained primarily food items such as 
biscuits... [DOC] [TLE] "We . . . Are the Most Fortunate of Prisoners": The Axis POW ... [PAR] approximately 425,000 Axis POWs held in the United States during. World War II.
3 By the war's end more than five hundred POW camps were ... Japanese 
prisoners.4 Approximately 16,000 of these prisoners were .... Of course the 
money is of no value .... ry items such as tobacco products and the pipes, lighters
, and other. [DOC] [TLE] Cigarettes and Their Impact on World War II - California State ... [PAR] smoking soldiers used cigarettes as a currency with which they could purchase 
things such ... Scholarly discussions of the role of cigarettes in World War II are 
sparse. ... Peter Taylor, The Smoke Ring, Tobacco, Money, Multinational Politics (
New York: ... These advertisements were published in many formats, from the 
comic. [DOC] [TLE] Two Packs of Cigarettes Say They Don't Make It Out Of The ... - Trace [PAR] Prisoner of War Camps During World War II" (1993). University of ... These 
American heros lived life on the other side of the battlefIeld, they had been 
captured in... [DOC] [TLE] Prisoners of War in Texas - Texas Historical Commission [PAR] This unit will discuss the prisoner of war camps in Texas during World War II. ... 
Each lesson can be used individually in one or two days, or the whole unit can be 
... Why were there so many prisoner of war (POW) camps in Texas? .... official 
reason these people were held was to help prevent sabotage and to ... bakery 
items. [DOC] [TLE] POW Camp O'Donnell and Camp Cabanatuan [PAR] It has been used to hold soldiers ever since it's founding and, prior to ... Prisoners 
will salute all Japanese officers and soldiers while wearing ... If any possessions 
remained after the Death March, all prisoners were stripped of their blankets, 
pencils, pens, lighters, knives, surgical equipment, paper, and tobacco products. [DOC] [TLE] How markets and currencies work - The Globe and Mail [PAR] Jan 19, 2010 ... The following account of a World War II prisoner-of-war camp economy, ... These 
contained primarily food items such as biscuits, chocolate, sugar, jam, butter, etc. 
.... and less were available as currency, prices of various goods and ... These 
were factors that influenced the "money supply" in the camp and,... [DOC] [TLE] Nazi Germany-controlled POW camps in the environs of ilut 1939 ... [PAR] The WWII prisoner of war and Gulag camps 19391955 in the environs of ilut 
... war in detail: the types of industry and economy where prisoners of war could 
be used ... During WWII the German territory and later the occupied territories 
were ... these camps, they could have been open outdoor areas of a field or other

Question: During WWII, these tobacco products were used as "money" in many prisoner-of-war camps
Answer: cigarettes