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Poisoned by Policy: How the Government's Own Program Killed Thousands
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The federal government deliberately poisoned industrial alcohol during Prohibition — and an estimated ten thousand Americans died drinking it. This episode traces the human cost of policy failure, from bathtub gin to Al Capone's sixty-million-dollar empire.
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People were going blind in the nineteen twenties. Not from accidents.
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