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U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition

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Poisonous alcohol still kills—16 people died just this month after drinking lethal booze in Indonesia, where bootleggers make their own brews to avoid steep taxes—but that's due to unscrupulous businessmen rather than government order.

I don't suppose the "steep taxes" had anything to do with it.

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