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Thursday, October 17, 2019, 6:00pm
By Dean Knetter

The fortunes of the tobacco industry haven't relied solely on Americans' tastes; politics have also played a key role in the business of smoking. We talk with an historian about how government subsidies, regulation, and more changed the way we look at the cigarette.

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