Eisenhower Smoked Six Packs Daily

In the weeks leading up to D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was reportedly smoking as many as six packs of cigarettes and drinking up to 24 cups of coffee a day under enormous pressure. He also rarely managed more than two hours of uninterrupted sleep per night as he prepared to make the final decision to launch the Normandy invasion.

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