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Given the attitudes, health concerns, and advertising restrictions regarding tobacco products, Toronto newspaper readers won't be seeing appeals to send smokes to Canada's overseas forces in their morning read anytime soon—a general appeal for morale boosting/easy to barter items would be more likely.

    

November 11, 1918: eager Torontonians, having seen several days of stories in the local dailies that the end of World War I was imminent, waited for word from Europe of the armistice that would bring loved ones home. The newspapers stayed close to their wires to put the presses into motion once the armistice was official. The Evening Telegram described the wait: