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Tobacco Wars

I’m not sure if this is a good book, but it sure is an interesting one. Besides costing the healthcare system billions to fix lungs, hearts and livers damaged by tar, smokers do contribute heavily to the tax base.The shenanigans in which sellers of the noxious weed are engaged are mind-boggling. Author Johann van Loggerenberg tries to make sense of it all,

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