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The sugar industry has been powerful for a long time. The first slaves were sugar workers. Back then the powers settled wars by trading islands with sugar.

Sugar has and will be more powerful than cigarettes evet were.

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s/cigarettes/tobacco/ and it's still a crapshoot as to which is more powerful.

Both are plantation crops and benefitted from slave labor.

Sugar is also a major ingredient in cigarettes. In some brands it is the #2 ingredient by weight.

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/27/3/357.1

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