Word: tobacco
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...Where once the university quadrangles resounded with the tipsy warbling of De Brevitate Vitae or other commercium songs, now only the echoes of mass-market electronic recordings disturb the silence of Saturday evenings. Beer pong has replaced banter, courtship has yielded to hook-ups, pot is preferred to pipe tobacco. The choice of drink, and the style in which it is quaffed, is likewise illustrative: watery beer or cheap liquor, impurities masked by the syrupy sweetness of sodas and juices, downed in furtive binges. The goal is not to lubricate conversation or ease the inhibitions of awkward adolescence...
...Lewis, who says he dabbled in cigarettes and pipes in college, stopped smoking shortly thereafter. But he says he continues to shop at the store for non-tobacco products and recently purchased political playing cards as Christmas stocking stuffers...
...Leavitt and Peirce] never changes, even without people smoking inside.” says Robin Lapidus, director of marketing and events for the Harvard Square Business Association. “The minute you open that door, the smell of fine tobacco and cigars and violet gum and colognes just waft out onto the street...
...Although Reed says she purchases tobacco online because of lower prices, she still buys cigarette filters—used for rolling tobacco—from Leavitt and Peirce...
...Other big players include local investment banks and wealthy individuals. The 80 stocks listed on the exchange range from the country's most popular cellular-phone carrier to Zimplow, which manufactures "animal-drawn farming implements," and includes companies producing a cross section of commodities such as timber, wine, nickel, tobacco, even bacon...