7. This brand was the only 1 smuggled into ISIS territory. A packet used to cost 750 dinars or $0.63. Under ISIS, it spiked to 20,000 or $17pic.twitter.com/cLYk9Pqaoi
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7. This brand was the only 1 smuggled into ISIS territory. A packet used to cost 750 dinars or $0.63. Under ISIS, it spiked to 20,000 or $17pic.twitter.com/cLYk9Pqaoi
8. He couldn't afford $17. So he & 4 friends pooled money to buy 1 pack of 20 cigarettes. Here's how he broke them up 2 make them last:pic.twitter.com/seLDwpUida
9. He said he and his buddies used to go out with their cows into the fields and smoke covering their faces like this to reduce the smoke:pic.twitter.com/8OCixf8dnQ
10 Then they used to brush their teeth & spritz each other with perfume before heading back. At a checkpoint he said an ISIS guy sniffed him
11 The day ISIS left, he chainsmoked 4 packs. Now he proudly wears his smokes. "I just like to walk around holding it in my hand bc I can."pic.twitter.com/fI6Jg8I3DG
12. In the next house we visited, I saw a young man walking in with a carton of the same cigarettes:pic.twitter.com/YbFUvtLOsZ
13. He too described pooling money with 4-5 friends. One carton like this cost over $100, which used to be the salary of an ISIS fighter
14. ISIS punished smoking with 20 lashes. It was a punishment he could face, he said. By the end, he claims ISIS began chopping fingers
15. I've not seen that in ISIS media, but I heard it from 3 families in Badoosh. They claim ISIS chopped off the 2 fingers used to hold cigpic.twitter.com/WPcNqFMXrL
16. In all I interviewed 6 ppl who'd smoked in defiance of IS' ban. "I'm addicted," said 1. "But I also wanted to do it to show resistance."pic.twitter.com/dCP2owxJsn
Amazingly touching. I too hate smoking but see the point. ISIS/et al cannot survive the strength of human spirit but oh, the sad road.
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