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FB 102: Holy Smokes: How the YMCA Helped Launch the Tobacco Black Market

FB 102: Holy Smokes: How the YMCA Helped Launch the Tobacco Black Market

Update: 2020-05-06

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The YMCA provided American soldiers with billions of cigarettes during World War I — and smugglers and terrorists with billions of new incentives to evade the law.

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FB 102: Holy Smokes: How the YMCA Helped Launch the Tobacco Black Market

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