Word: modishly
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...sophisticated decadence of concession-era Shanghai. From articles in Vanity Fair and Arena to documentaries on Japanese television, opium smoking has become chic. It is the drug of choice for a few famous Paris fashion designers and restaurateurs. And collecting opium pipes and paraphernalia is popular among modish New Yorkers. The trendiness is fueled in part by scarcity: it takes 100 g of opium to refine 10 g of heroin. Of the 5,000 tons of opium harvested annually, 99% of it is synthesized into more lucrative and easily transported heroin by drug refiners closer to the source. Very little...