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Setting on my conversation piece, a "Bering" brand cigar, so short and stumpy that in my mouth it appeared self-referential, I asked Tim how much the stogie would cost. When he told me "only 75 cents," I was shocked. A Bering for three measley quarters? How could it be? If Leavitt and Peirce were this cheap I would develop lip cancer before graduation. But as he handed me my change, Tim lowered his voice and leaned across the counter. "Between me and you, chief, those aren't Berings." As the night wore on and canker-sores began to sprout...
...seemed like a bargain, while the little green lollipop did not. There are bins of 99-cent socks which smell as if they've already been worn, and crates of women's underwear, through which a middle-aged man was all too eagerly rifling as he eyed my cigar...
...store continues to sell many types of cigars, pipes, and tobacco blends and countless smoking gadgets. Davidoff's Aniversario No. 1, at $19.00, is the most expensive cigar in the store, and there are pipes in the $300 dollar range...
...Peter Scolari (Newhart) and Pamela Reed (Tanner '88), playing a couple who move their family back East to be closer to their aging parents. Everyone on the show is wired, from a TV-mesmerized son ("Joan Lunden's hair! What is she thinking?") to a splenetic, cigar-smoking grandfather ("I don't get it. You have your third heart attack, and everybody panics"). In the midst of this mayhem, Reed and Scolari keep their cool wits about them and help deliver the season's funniest half-hour...
...York City's Spanish Harlem, the highs come cheap. To create a "blunt," teenagers slice open a cigar and mix the tobacco with marijuana. To enhance the hit, they fashion "B-40s" by dipping the cigar in malt liquor. In Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults at a rave party in an abandoned house -- the rage among middle-class youths everywhere with money to burn -- and their rich assortment of hooch: pot, uppers, downers, heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer...