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Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Behind the Bastards

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Duke and the Cigarette

In 1902, Duke of Westminster set out to get the world to start adopting cigarettes. He cut out independent manufacturers and free agents, small resailors and rollers. The entire tobacco market went from an artisanal industry with strong unions to a vast factory for the production of identical machine-rolled cigarettes.

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