1. Yesterday, my team made it to the furthest point I've gone northwest of Mosul to the locality of Badoosh, where we interviewed residents:pic.twitter.com/N6m49qGf1d
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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17. I headed back in the early evening, passing this pretty, abandoned village. In another time, this could have been a tourist spot:pic.twitter.com/omtzm9uqDV
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Wow my mom did this to me
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