"We have been really behind on this important issue," said Burkhard Blienert, the drug policy spokesman for the Social Democrats group in the Bundestag
During World War II, cigarettes were given to soldiers as a way to escape from boredom during downtime psychologically and to alleviate war stress
In the video, Notap uses a bell jar filled with cotton wool to represent the lungs and a suction pipe to mimic someone inhaling
This is mainly due to the rise on tobacco levies imposed by the French government in the wake of enforced EU "health advice", which has forced the price of French cigarettes up to the level of those from the USA, with the more aggressively promoted brands such as Marlboro now taking the majority market share
Though he was not brand-loyal, he did smoke a lot of menthols because, for him, price was the driving factor in picking a cigarette