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Cigarette Rationing

by CSV Action Desk Leicester

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Contributed by听: CSV Action Desk Leicester
People in story:听: William Tyrell
Location of story:听: County Offaly, Ireland
Background to story:听: Civilian
Article ID:听: A4868869
Contributed on:听: 08 August 2005

I would come home from work and my mother wuold want cigarettes, very often she wouldn't have any. I would go out calling at three different shops and if they didn't have any I would cycle about 8 miles to a blackmarket shop who always had cigarettes -for three times the usual price!

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