# Cigarettes as a de-facto currency?

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**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [March 9, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cigarettes-as-a-de-facto-currency/404 "2013-03-09T19:43:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cigarettes-as-a-de-facto-currency/404/7 "2013-03-10T02:53:33Z")

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Narcotics could be the various currencies, since few people actually use them for their intended purposes (from what I know) and they’re difficult to manufacture (so few people could actually make their own drugs and it’d be impossible to counterfeit).

From Spoony’s Counter Monkey stories, he mentioned two post-apocalyptic stories; the currency in one was water, and the other was bullets.

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