(FORTUNE Magazine) – MOSCOW -- A Soviet widow asked for a death certificate after her husband's funeral, but authorities demanded his tobacco ration coupons back first. ''Tobacco is for the living,'' officials in the Lipetsk region south of Moscow told the woman . . . A Soviet newspaper reported earlier this year a lucrative black market trade in death certificates in a Siberian town because they gave bereaved families the right to a suit to bury male relatives. -- From a Reuters dispatch.