Chimo may be bought in several types of shops, perhaps 
the most popular of which is the campesino’s (country 
man’s) substitute for a club, the grog shop (botiquin). 
Here he buys liquor (usually aguardiente, liquor of poor 
quality distilled from sugar cane) by the glass and plays 
dominoes at one of several rough wooden tables. 
Other shops are the large provision store, the bodega, 
or the smaller, humbler general store characteristic of 
villages or country crossroads, the pu/peria. These shops 
may sell either the paper-wrapped or the leaf-wrapped, 
or both types of chimo. 
In Petare, a town on the edge of Caracas, chim6 was 
noticed in the Free Market at a general tobacco stand 
by Cardona (17). It was the paper-wrapped type and 
was kept in a closed glass jar ‘‘the way candy is kept, 
so it won't melt (derretirse)’’. This precaution is neces- 
sary, since chimo liquefies after about a month and is no 
longer usable. 
From one cent (wz centavo) in 1942, the price of chim6é 
has increased to two and one-half cents (una locha), or 
one-eighth of a bolivar (calculated at standard value of 
twenty cents). 
Since low cost for a highly effective result has been a 
point in the popularity of chimo6, we might speculate on 
its future should the price continue to rise or the quan- 
tity in a bqjote go down further. Valero (pers. comm. ) 
observes that in Trujillo the younger men are turning 
away from chim6 to cigarettes because of extensive ad- 
vertising. Venezuela produces several brands, and ciga- 
rettes are sold singly as well as by the pack. 
4. Accessories. Accessories used with chimo are the 
chimo box (cayeta, literally ‘‘little box’’: also called euca, 
chimoera; cachito when made of horn) and the spatula 
(pajuela, paletica). 
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