Japan's Weaponized WW2 Opium Cigarettes
Forgotten Weapons
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Patrick Phillips is back with me today to discuss the very real Japanese tactic of smuggling opium-laced cigarettes into China in an effort to undermine Chinese military resistance to Japanese invasion...
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