Where Can I Buy Beedies in San Francisco?

Question by P Fighter: Where can I buy Beedies in San Francisco?
i live in downtown san francisco, and i would like to buy some beedies, but im not sure where. I could probably ask some random Indian people in the tenderloin, but i thought i would ask here first.

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Answer by Alena
O’Brien, E. (1998, November 30). “‘Beedies’ are teens’ newest addiction.” The Boston Globe, pp. B1, B6.

OVERVIEW

“Beedies” are sweet little, hand wrapped, sweet tasting cigarettes, made in India and coming to the U.S. youth culture. They hit underage smokers in L.A. about 1993, moved on to cities like San Francisco, Cleveland, Chicago, and became popular with Boston kids in the late 1990s.

Hand-rolled in India, beedies are unfiltered and tapered at one or both ends and resemble a marijuana cigarette more than a machine-rolled Camel or Winston. These thin Indian cigarettes in sweet flavors like cherry and vanilla—or bidis, depending on the brand—come in pink packages that make them look more like party favors than smokes.

Greg Connolly heads the state’s tobacco control program for the Department of Public Health:

It’s a phenomenon we are just now seeing. It’s mostly in ethnic neighborhoods. It’s become sort of urban chic.

It’s not the main stores but small neighborhood stores that carry them because they can get away with selling the bright cone-shaped packages to children who immediately conceal them. Boston School Police Lieutenant Michael Hennesey says:

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