{"id":5938,"date":"2012-09-09T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2012-09-09T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T04:11:18","slug":"cigarettes-the-ultimate-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/cigarettes-the-ultimate-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarettes: The Ultimate Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090912_0351_CigarettesT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cigarettes. Is there anything they can&#8217;t do? Venessa Wong pointed out that they were arguably the most stable international currency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luxury cigarettes that cost almost $900 have become a common way to bribe officials in China.<\/li>\n<li>In American jails cigarettes were the most widely used currency until they were banned.<\/li>\n<li>In Romania in the 1980s Kent cigarettes would be enough to bribe a doctor to see to your sick child. The cigarettes were so widely circulated as currency that they would often go stale.<\/li>\n<li>After World War Two wiped out the value of the German currency, Germans would use cigarettes to barter for goods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about how cigarettes are viewed today over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-03-04\/cigarettes-the-most-stable-international-currency\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-03-04\/cigarettes-the-most-stable-international-currency\">Business Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cigarettes. Is there anything they can&#8217;t do? Venessa Wong pointed out that they were arguably the most stable international currency: Luxury cigarettes that cost almost $900 have become a common way to bribe officials in China. In American jails cigarettes were the most widely used currency until they were banned. In Romania in the 1980s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090912_0351_CigarettesT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5941,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}