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Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

FB 102: Holy Smokes: How the YMCA Helped Launch the Tobacco Black Market

Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

iHeartPodcasts and OZY

Society & Culture, History

4.6818 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The YMCA provided American soldiers with billions of cigarettes during World War I — and smugglers and terrorists with billions of new incentives to evade the law.

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Authority is in North Carolina first started to get suspicious in 2018.

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That's when they noticed two odd things near the city of Fayetteville.

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First, there was an unusually large number of cigarettes being sold in the area, far more than could be explained by local demand.

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Second, police were stopping a number of vehicles along the local interstate highway that were carrying

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cash, lots of cash. The investigation led authorities to a plain gray brick building.

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This is where investigators say it all started. This business behind me here is called

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Freeco. It's listed on Google as a candy business, but authorities say what was coming out of here

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