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Afghan women smoke opium. Author Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy writes that the price of one kilogram of Afghan opium rose from between US$95 and US$120 to US$500 after American troops arrived.

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: Afghanistan is, by far, the world’s biggest producer of opium (a title long held by India during the days of the Raj).

: An engraving depicting an Ottoman opium seller by London’s F.W. Topham, circa 1850.

: Afghan women smoke opium. Author Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy writes that the price of one kilogram of Afghan opium rose from between US$95 and US$120 to US$500 after American troops arrived.

: American soldiers in Helmand province, Afghanistan, greet children working in the farmlands near their base.

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