In Philadelphia, a city that arguably had more crack users, per capita, than any other, a dealer mused about his clientele: “The girls like ‘the girl’ [crack], the boys like ‘the girl’ … That glass dick [the crack pipe]. They puffin’ away for the genie in the glass bottle. Ha-heh.” By 1991, more than four million people had smoked crack. Whites made up the majority of those people. Even though pretty much every mass media story and politicians’ claim emphasized the addictive power of crack, the vast majority of people who smoked crack did not become addicted to the drug. Most smoked recreationally, rarely, or they tried it once or maybe a few times and then stopped. But the biggest consumers, the people the crack crews depended on for their profits, those were the addicts, the people, as the Philly crack dealer put it, who put their lives in the hands of the “genie in the glass bottle.”