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With the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the FDA banned the sale of flavored cigarettes. As of September 21, 2009, clove cigarettes are no longer legal in the United States. In this week long symposium, three writers will mark the passing of the Indonesian imports.

I. Welcome to America: Where No Good Foreigner Goes Unpunished

Kent Woodyard reflects on the deportation of clove cigarettes, which were banned just as he was getting to know them.

II. Exile and the Kingdom

Camus, NASCAR, and the road to enlightened bohemianism. Andy Siefert journals his experiences with the Clove.

III. Clearing the smoke

Dara Lind comes down from her clove-induced nostalgia trip.