Wounded Soldiers and Sailors Fag Day Fund flag
MMM.2002.66.4
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Providing cigarettes for soldiers was a popular fund during the First World War. However, not everyone thought that sending large numbers of cigarettes to troops was a good idea. On 3 October 1916, a letter from physician Thomas Fraser appeared in The Times stating:
‘It is fully recognized by medical men that excessive smoking is injurious.’