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Junior music major Jon Clay sits on the patio of Caspian Mediterranean Cafe
on 13th Avenue near campus with his cigarette and coffee on the afternoon of Feb. 11.
LEGAL
stimulation
Heavy coffee and cigarette use helps create a vicious circle
in a college lifestyle where these stimulants are the norm
BY MOLLY COONEY-MESKER
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
Smoke lingers in the dappled
sunlight near the maple tree on
the back porch of Espresso
Roma on 13th Avenue. For many of
Eugene’s caffeine and nicotine
addicts, this local coffee shop is a
home away from home. Some
people chat with friends, while
others sit absorbed in studies,
newspapers and crosswords. Many
grasp their warm coffee mugs with
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people of coffee
shop culture.
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an understated
subculture
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driven by dependence on legal
stimulant drugs. The need for
stimulants helps define a
community that finds comfort in the
broad network of fellow addicts.
The network is so wide that film
director Jim Jarmusch created an
entire movie about it, titled “Coffee
and Cigarettes,” which celebrates the
people around the world who take
pleasure in these indulgences.
Last month, National Geographic
magazine forfeited its typically exotic
cover photos for a close-up of a
cappuccino. The related article was
titled “Caffeine: It’s the world’s most
popular psychoactive drug” and
featured research regarding the effects
caffeine has on a person’s body. In the
Starbucks, Jim Beam
launch coffee liqueur
CHICAGO — Last week,
Starbucks Corp. launched its first
alcoholic drink: a coffee liqueur.
Starbucks Coffee Liqueur,
made in collaboration with Jim
Beam Brands Co., will be sold in
restaurants, bars, and liquor
stores, not in coffeehouses.
Alcohol content is 20 percent by
volume, or 40 proof.
A 750 milliliter bottle will sell
for around $23. The product
also is available in 1 liter and
50 milliliter sizes. Future Brands
LLC will distribute the liqueur.
Starbucks and Jim Beam, a
unit of Fortune Brands Inc., said the
launch follows successful test rp^r
article, neuroscientist and sleep expert
Charles Czeisler discusses the drug’s
“catch-22”: People use caffeine to
make up for a sleep deficit created
largely by using caffeine.
Although most coffee and cigarette
junkies choose to ignore the warnings
of the Surgeon General and
other health officials, there are
those health-conscious individuals
who try to cut back or kick
the habits completely. In the
nature of addiction, breaking free
“Caffeine and nicotine are the
best drugs in the world If 1 die
of coffee and cigarettes, it
means I will have lived well. ”
KELLY PATTERSON
University graduate
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difficult task.
Those trying to
quit only one of
the habits may
discover how
closely they are
linked — for
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University student Brendan
Newell was an avid smoker and
coffee drinker for many years before
he decided to stop smoking this fall.
He said he didn’t anticipate quitting
his caffeine habit as well.
During the first couple
months, he stopped smoking
and disappeared from his usual
perch on Espresso Roma’s back
porch. He had come to associate
smoking with coffee and the
social atmosphere of the coffee
shop. Recently, he has returned
to the shop and now enjoys his
coffee sans cigarette. Still, his fellow
back-porchers exhale in between
sips and remind Newell of his
forgone coffee-and-cigarette bliss.
keting in Denver and Austin, Texas.
It’s not the first time Seattle
based Starbucks has joined
with another manufacturer to
diversify. PepsiCo Inc. bottles and
distributes Starbucks Frappucci
no drinks, and Dreyer’s Grand
Ice Cream Holdings Inc. sells
Starbucks ice cream.
During a January conference
call, Fortune Brands, said it
was planning substantial invest
ments behind the launch of the
coffee liqueur. With these
and other startup costs, the
consumer brands company
expects the product to have a
neutral to slightly positive effect
on 2005 earnings.
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