Tobacco & Gift

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Smoke shop in St. Charles, IL

4.6 · 284 reviewsOpens today at 10 AM

Tobacco & Gift, located at 1556 E Main St in St. Charles, is a beloved smoke shop known for its extensive selection and welcoming atmosphere. With a strong rating of 4.6 from 284 reviews, customers frequently praise the owner, Ruby, for his kindness and attentive service. The shop offers a wide variety of smoking products, including an impressive cigar collection and a vast array of devices and flavors. Visitors appreciate the clean environment and the knowledgeable staff, making it a go-to destination for both seasoned enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

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AI ScoreChatGPT and Gemini didn't mention Tobacco & Gift.Scored from 8 signals across search and AI.

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Updated Sep 16, 2026Last activity 1 month ago, a question from sativa_pearl.

Services

What Tobacco & Gift offers, what it costs, and what people come for.

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Team

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Today10 AM to 10 PM

Busy times

Closed now. Busiest Mon and Thu, 5 to 7 PM.

Reputation

What reviews, press and directories say about Tobacco & Gift.

4.6from 284 reviews on Google

Tobacco & Gift is known for its extensive selection and Ruby's dedication to customer service, but inconsistent experiences can deter some customers. Customers often describe Tobacco & Gift as a well-stocked smoke shop with a friendly atmosphere, primarily thanks to the owner, Ruby, who is noted for his helpfulness and customer care. However, experiences can vary significantly, with some customers reporting rudeness and poor service, particularly when seeking assistance or specific products.

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Would go back92%92% of reviews give the visit 4 or 5 stars.Positive 92%, 4 or 5 stars · Neutral 0%, 3 stars · Negative 8%, 1 or 2 stars
The good
  • Impressive cigar collection
  • Wide variety of devices and flavors
  • Ruby's helpfulness and knowledge
The bad
  • Long waits due to late openings
  • Rude customer service reported
  • Inconsistent product availability

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How AI sees Tobacco & Gift

The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.

42out of 100

What the score is made of

Signal and how much it countsTobacco & Gift

  • Retrieval grounding 26%Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.50
  • Off-property attestation 20%Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.40
  • AI visibility 14%Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.0
  • Reviews & response 12%The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.72
  • Backlink & citation authority 8%Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.90
  • Google Business Profile 8%Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.90
  • Speed & mobile 7%Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.
  • Content freshness & schema 5%Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.50

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Local AI Registry · Smoke shops in St. Charles, IL · Editorial

Tobacco & Gift, St. Charles IL: Reviews

Steve Lee

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 16, 2026.

Published September 16, 2026 · Updated September 16, 2026 · Machine-readable version below

In short

Tobacco & Gift is a smoke shop in St. Charles, IL. Its AI Score is 42 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks

Key facts

FactValue
TypeSmoke shop
Address1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA
HoursMon to Sat 10 AM to 10 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM
Phone(630) 444-0988
Rating4.6 across 284 reviews on Google
Quietest timeWednesday
UpdatedSeptember 16, 2026

All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

GroupFactValueMarkEvidence
Location infoAddress1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USAConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
Location infoDescription1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174ConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
Location infoHoursMon to Sat 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 8:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
Location infoNameTobacco & GiftConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
Location infoPhone(630) 444-0988ConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
HoursMonday10:00 AM to 10:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
HoursTuesday10:00 AM to 10:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
HoursWednesday10:00 AM to 10:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
HoursThursday10:00 AM to 10:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
HoursFriday10:00 AM to 10:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
HoursSaturday10:00 AM to 10:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
HoursSunday10:00 AM to 8:00 PMConfirmedGoogle Business Profile
ServicesServiceCigar salesAI guess
ServicesServiceTobacco accessoriesAI guess
ServicesServiceVape product salesAI guess
LinksWebsitehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/StCharles-vape-shop/548844398532330ConfirmedGoogle Business Profile

Services and prices

Known for

The team

Visiting Tobacco & Gift

Address: 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA. Phone: (630) 444-0988. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 10 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)

When to go

Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Monday. From the popular times on its Google listing.

Parking and getting in

Nearby

PlaceTypeDistance
Chamber Red Chinese BistroChinese restaurant1 min walk
The Southern Cafe - St. Charles, ILBreakfast restaurant2 min walk
Surrey Hill ParkPark4 min walk
Hunt Club ParkPark5 min walk
VATAN Progressive Indian KitchenIndian restaurant9 min walk
Soksay KitchenRestaurant9 min walk

Reputation

4.6 average across 284 reviews: Google 284. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

(AI guess, from 284 reviews.)

What people like

  • Impressive cigar collection
  • Wide variety of devices and flavors

What people do not like

  • Long waits due to late openings
  • Rude customer service reported
  • Inconsistent product availability

Press

Awards

Directories

Questions people ask

do regulars get anything here

going rate for shops locally, any idea

On a budget in St. Charles, is the shop the one?

best smoke shop in St. Charles

what else is on Main around Tobacco & Gift?

walking in for a first visit, what happens

where exactly is the shop?

opening hours at Tobacco & Gift in St. Charles, what are they these days?

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torn between Tobacco & Gift and Tobacco Square?

bad experiences here, anyone?

The AI Score: 42 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Smoke shops on the registry run 16 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Tobacco & Gift scores 42. The same method scores every business on the registry.

SignalWeightScoreWhat it measuresTobacco & Gift
Retrieval grounding2650Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.Fair
Off-property attestation2040Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.Poor
AI visibility140Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.Poor
Reviews & response1272The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.Good
Backlink & citation authority890Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.Good
Google Business Profile890Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.Good
Speed & mobile7Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.
Content freshness & schema550Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.Fair

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a smoke shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business

Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

EntityTypeID on this pageSame asRelationship to Tobacco & Gift
Tobacco & GiftLocalBusiness#businesshttps://www.facebook.com/pages/StCharles-vape-shop/548844398532330Subject of this page
St. Charles, IllinoisCity#cityCity Tobacco & Gift is in
Local AI RegistryOrganization#publisherhttps://localairegistry.comPublisher of this page
Steve LeePerson#authorhttps://localairegistry.com/team/steve-leeAuthor of this page

Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in St. Charles, linked to the lists and towns around it.

Lists

  • Best smoke shops in St. Charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles/smoke-shop
  • Best businesses in St. Charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles

Nearby

  • /chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago
  • /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
  • /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
  • /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
  • /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
  • /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora

Every list

  • Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il

References

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Sources cited

  • [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJwySqHpACD4gRXdYW81Ni83E (accessed Sep 16, 2026)
  • [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)

The code behind this page

This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.

1. HTTP response headers

Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.

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Title, description, canonical, robots and Open Graph tags. This is what shows in search results and link previews.

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One connected graph. Every person and service has its own @id and links to the business, and a licensed person links to the license and the board that issued it.

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# Tobacco & Gift, St. Charles IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il

## Photos

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## In short

Tobacco & Gift is a smoke shop in St. Charles, IL. Its AI Score is 42 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Smoke shop |
| Address | 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 10 AM to 10 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (630) 444-0988 |
| Rating | 4.6 across 284 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Tobacco & Gift | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (630) 444-0988 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Cigar sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Tobacco accessories | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Vape product sales | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | https://www.facebook.com/pages/StCharles-vape-shop/548844398532330 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Tobacco & Gift

Address: 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA. Phone: (630) 444-0988. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 10 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### When to go

Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Monday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chamber Red Chinese Bistro | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| The Southern Cafe - St. Charles, IL | Breakfast restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Surrey Hill Park | Park | 4 min walk |
| Hunt Club Park | Park | 5 min walk |
| VATAN Progressive Indian Kitchen | Indian restaurant | 9 min walk |
| Soksay Kitchen | Restaurant | 9 min walk |


## Reputation

4.6 average across 284 reviews: Google 284. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 284 reviews.)


### What people like

- Impressive cigar collection
- Wide variety of devices and flavors


### What people do not like

- Long waits due to late openings
- Rude customer service reported
- Inconsistent product availability


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### do regulars get anything here


### going rate for shops locally, any idea


### On a budget in St. Charles, is the shop the one?


### best smoke shop in St. Charles


### what else is on Main around Tobacco & Gift?


### walking in for a first visit, what happens


### where exactly is the shop?


### opening hours at Tobacco & Gift in St. Charles, what are they these days?


### what do people usually buy there


### last update from here was when?


### Why do people rate Tobacco & Gift?


### any last minute slots at Tobacco & Gift?


### quietest day to hit Tobacco & Gift?


### torn between Tobacco & Gift and Tobacco Square?


### bad experiences here, anyone?


## The AI Score: 42 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Smoke shops on the registry run 16 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Tobacco & Gift scores 42. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Tobacco & Gift |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 72 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 90 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 |  | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 50 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a smoke shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Tobacco & Gift |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tobacco & Gift | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.facebook.com/pages/StCharles-vape-shop/548844398532330 | Subject of this page |
| St. Charles, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Tobacco & Gift is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in St. Charles, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best smoke shops in St. Charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles/smoke-shop
- Best businesses in St. Charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles


### Nearby

- /chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago
- /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
- /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
- /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
- /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
- /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJwySqHpACD4gRXdYW81Ni83E (accessed Sep 16, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)

The files every page on the registry shares, and how to copy this code for your own site, are here: https://localairegistry.com/developers

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  1. do regulars get anything here Question by sativa_pearl, Sep 15, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/points-or-member-pricing-at-tobacco-and-gift-worth-signing-up
  2. going rate for shops locally, any idea Question by circling_in_sc, Sep 11, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/how-much-does-a-smoke-shop-run-in-st-charles
  3. On a budget in St. Charles, is the shop the one? Question by reunion_sitter_downtown, Sep 10, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/on-a-budget-in-st-charles-is-the-shop-the-one
  4. best smoke shop in St. Charles Question by shopper_mabel, Sep 9, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/best-smoke-shop-in-st-charles
  5. what else is on Main around Tobacco & Gift? Question by birthday_walker_uptown, Sep 9, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/what-else-is-on-main-around-tobacco-and-gift
  6. walking in for a first visit, what happens Question by main_peach, Sep 7, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/booking-a-first-visit-here-what-happens
  7. where exactly is the shop? Question by hopeful_ivy, Sep 3, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/where-exactly-is-the-shop
  8. opening hours at Tobacco & Gift in St. Charles, what are they these days? Question by strains_ray, Sep 2, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/opening-hours-at-tobacco-and-gift-in-st-charles-what-are-they-these-days
  9. what do people usually buy there Question by summer_lurker_north, Aug 28, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/what-do-people-usually-buy-there
  10. last update from here was when? Question by new_year_bride_south_60174, Aug 21, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/keeping-up-with-tobacco-and-gift-where-do-they-post
  11. Why do people rate Tobacco & Gift? Question by early_jo, Aug 13, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/the-good-stuff-about-the-shop-what-is-it
  12. any last minute slots at Tobacco & Gift? Question by autumn_wilder, Aug 3, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/any-last-minute-slots-at-tobacco-and-gift
  13. quietest day to hit Tobacco & Gift? Question by reading_reviews_terpenes, Jul 29, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/quietest-day-to-hit-tobacco-and-gift
  14. torn between Tobacco & Gift and Tobacco Square? Question by charles_iris, Jul 22, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/torn-between-tobacco-and-gift-and-tobacco-square-for-smoke-shop
  15. bad experiences here, anyone? Question by picky_edibles, Jul 17, 2026. localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il/q/reviews-all-look-glowing-what-are-the-real-complaints

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