My family used WWII Ration stamps to buy food, and I was old enough to tear the correct stamps out of the books!
I collected savings stamps in school, to buy war bonds.
Remember sitting in the dark during blackouts in St. Louis MO, while listening to some of the old radio programs mentioned above.
I remember smoking Lucky Strikes out of a green pack, but they came out of a surplus C-ration pack in my early AF days. Also smoked Luckys from the new pack, Marvels, Wings, and Spuds, or what ever was cheapest at the time. Smoked OPB's, when I couldn't afford my own cigarettes.
Rolled my own with Prince Albert, Bugle Boy, and Velvet tobaccos (flat cans) stocked up by my grandfather before WWII tobacco rationing began.
Tried Golden Grain tobacco after the war, because all the local farmers smoked it! Golden Grain was an awful tasting tiny flake tobacco that came in cloth bags, and was impossible to keep on the paper in a wind (or off your tongue) when rolling your own cigarettes. Took a wad of spit to keep it all together.
Still remember watching in awe, as an older neighbor farmer rolling a Golden Grain cigarette with one hand, while walking behind his mule team plowing!
Chewed Days Work, and Bee's Wax chewing tobaccos, but thankfully never took a liking to snuff.
In my late teens, and early twenties I also smoked pipes, and cigars, but gave up all tobacco products before our first baby was old enough to notice what I was doing to my health. Thankfully, only one of our four children ever smoked, but quit years ago.
My first car was a 1929 Model A Ford, but I've driven a Henry J, a LaSalle, a De Soto, and a Hudson, among others!
I'm almost as old as Methuselah, but still younger than my stunt hero Leo Mehl, and evidently Leo is younger than Bigiron!
My hats off to all the senior members of our forum!

Bill