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...down to one simple proposition. "The bottom line question: Is nicotine in cigarettes addictive?" FDA commissioner David Kessler asked a parade of experts at the agency's Washington hearings. Most of the guests said yes. "Then why the debate?" Kessler asked. The drug experts, who called the fight with tobacco companies over addiction "semantic," posed some intriguing possibilities for regulation. One proposal: limit the nicotine in individual cigarettes to make smoking "really a free choice." That way, most people could smoke up to a pack a day without becoming addicted...
Germany and Japan may have started the trend but the most newsworthy example of rearming, at least in the Harvard area, has been at Leavitt and Peirce, the Square tobacco shop...
Leavitt & Peirce, which is owned by the David P. Ehrlich Company, is periodically featured in GQ magazine for its selection of cigars and tobacco...
...several decades, Harvard rowers have visited Leavitt & Peirce every day to check daily line-ups. Coaches through the years have noted the irony of posting line-ups for a sport as aerobically vigorous as rowing in a shop that sells tobacco...
...addition to his extravagant clothing and stereo purchases, Lee was a regular customer at Leavitt and Peirce, a local tobacco store where he often bought cigars, friends...