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For Soldiers Like Me, Cigarettes and War Are Inseparable
From blackmarket $40-a-pack Marlboros to free smokes bummed at car-bomb checkpoints, nicotine is a soldier’s best friend—and addictive in a way a civilian can never understand.
Colby Buzzell
Published
Feb. 3 2009
1:12AM EST
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