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X20- A Novel of Smoking

✍ Scribed by Beard, Richard

Book ID: 108882679
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 567 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781611456523

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to smoke a packet a day for research purposes, trying to give up. To keep his hands busy he decides to write a journal.

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