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Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Know What's Going On?

Duke was 20 years ahead of the invention of menthol cigarettes. But that wasn't enough to protect him from Department of Justice, which used to punish corporations for monopolistic behavior. The DOJ is like, yeah, you've made a monopoly. This is not legal,. And you have to dismantle American tobacco. Now, this is impossible, because Duke has vertically integrated it to such a degree that everyone is reliant upon the same supply and distribution change.

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