Candy Cigarettes?

[dhermann1]

I used to love candy cigarets, too. I was such a stickler for "realism" when I was a kid, that it irritated me that the candy cigarets got smalller from the wrong end! I don't know how they'd make a candy cigaret that got smaller from the unsucked end, but I thought they should.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Includes a hat

My Mr. Potato Head still has a pipe. And a purse and high heels, just like me. And Mrs. Orange Head. And Pepper Head, whose title is flexible. And glasses.

 

[Smithy]

Absolutely, completely ridiculous. Tango Yankee's right, it's like saying that kids who play cowboys and indians are predisposed to grow up and want to shoot indians.

I've seen plenty of kids hold a pen like a ciggie and wave it around the same way, so shall we ban anything vaguely the same shape and size as a cigarette?

What twaddle :rage:

 

[LizzieMaine]

We have a candy store here in town that still carries candy cigs, but they don't come in the authentic looking "Lucky Spike" packs that they did when I was a wee lass. I preferred the Pink Owl cigars, though -- you got more for your money.

And they never led me to smoke anything in my life -- except maybe for that time when I was eleven and smoked a tea bag on a dare. Talk about your caffeine rush...

 

[KittyT]

I loved the candy cigs as a kid! I'm a smoker now, but I don't really think the one had anything to do with the other.

 

[Harry Pierpont]

DITTO!!!

I'm not a smoker, have never been a smoker, and never understood why anyone would go to great lengths to make themselves look and smell good only to mask it all with smoke and the smell of smoke.

I remember the candy cigarettes from the 60s when I was a kid. I liked them from time to time. I grew up with a mother who smoked. People all around me smoked. And yet, somehow, I managed not to do it.

I grew up with drugs being available around me. Somehow, I managed not to do it.

I grew up with toy guns, playing cowboys and indians, cops and robbers, soldiers at war. Somehow I grew up without thinking using a gun on others for fun is OK.

Maybe I just had parents who taught me well. Maybe those anti-drug/cigarette campaigns worked. Maybe I just wasn't interested.

Why should anyone take responsibility for their own actions when there are so many out there willing to say it's not their fault, they were exposed to it as a kid?

I'm getting rather tired of it all...

Cheers,
Tom

I wholeheartedly agree!!

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[Daisy Buchanan]

I just bought a pack of the bubble gum ciggies the other day, the kind where you can blow powdered sugar out of them to make it look like your smoking. MMMM they're good

 

[MrNewportCustom]

100% agreement, Tango Yankee. Same here. In fact, I used to blow my breath like cigarette smoke on cold days. Neither that nor the candy turned me into a smoker.

Renaming poker Gumby so that my parents wouldn't know which card game I was really playing didn't turn me into a gambler, either.



Lee
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[Diamondback]

Heck, some of my relatives used to think my assuming a Hannibal Smith attitude, with Cocktail Pep in place of cigar, was amusing... didn't make a cigar-fiend out of me, though.

Catch is, it only works briefly--once it warms up enough the pepperoni starts to "sweat"... where's the :yuk: emoticon?

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Cigarettes made me chew gum for a while when I quit.

 

[Edward]

I preferred liquorice pipes - with the red 'hundreds and thousands' on the top of the bowl . . . but the cigs weren't bad neiver.

bk

I loved those! My folks were always very clear as I grew up that smoking was neither big nor clever. Neither of them ever smoked, to my knowledge, nor did my grandparents that I'm aware of, now I think about it. I imagine that would probably have had a big impact if they had - even if it was nothing more than "don't you tell me not to when you do it!". I also remember my folks never discouraging us from the typical "sweetie cigarettes" - they came in tiny, kid-sized card boxes (cut like kind of a hybrid between a matchbox and a cigarette pack). The sticks were all-white, about 1/8" thick by 1 3/4" long, and one end was coloured red. Chocolate ones were very rare (I did encounter chocolate, paper-covered one in Guernsey in 1991, though, with realistic looking boxes - all fake brands of course). Paper-wrapped gum versions I remember somebody buying some of those for me about 1977, though that was the only time I recall them from child hood (I did encounter some agai in Holland when i was 17). In Northern Ireland, as I believe the rest of the UK, anything that actually looked like a cigarette was pretty much dropped entirely from the market. I don't recall it being a specific legal ban (though I'm sure advertising rules would have precluded them), more a oscial change. The little white sweetie cigarettes are still around - I bought some just the other day. They never disappeared, the producers simply just stopped tipping the ends red and renamed them "candy sticks."

TBH, I think it's fair enough to discourage kids from associating smoking with something fun, pleasant, or even grown up or whatever and I wouldn't be hugely outraged if these were banned (I'm making assumptions based on what the story seems to have been about - link won't work for me), but really I honestly believe that what the parents do will have far more impact. Seems to be if we on here are typical, there's no proof that these contribute to kids taking up smoking in later life.

 

[bobalooba]

I find it funny that they still have to drag the tobacco companies into the article. They don't make candy cigarettes or sponsor them. I wish the whole issue would just be dropped. I smoke, and I blame no one but myself.

Yes I enjoyed candy cigarettes when I was little. I was elated when I won a "carton" of them on the boardwalk in Wildwood when I was about 10. Did they ever think that kids like them because it mirrors something adults do? Who didn't want to be grown-up when they were young? I didn't want to be bothered with bedtimes and school and all that stuff.

Thus concludes my out-of-the-blue rant. My apologies.

Actually in early days of candy cigs there is evidence that some of the major players like camel actually did sponsor the candy cigarette.
Whether this is true or not I don't know but they sure didn't sue when the companies made their candy boxes have the same packaging as the real thing.

 

[kyda]

We had the lollies FAGS, and well they are the same thing you are talking about. I had them as a child, yes I did smoke but it was not because of them it was the age old peer pressure. While I have not had a cigarette in my hand for nearly 10 years I do not blame anybody for the choice that I made ( I could have said no) and I would hope that my children do not smoke I accept that people do and there is nobody out there making you do it. Take responsibility for what YOU do and stop blaming everybody else. You have a tongue in your head and a brain use them. END RANT.

 

[LordBest]

There was/is this fantastic candy store in Queenscliff, Victoria which had both Fags and other varieties, including larger candy cigars. From age 8-14 or so on holidays to Queenscliff I was a candy chain smoker, a pack of Fags and a dozen cigars a day. Never smoked a single tobacco product though.

 

[tuppence]

There was/is this fantastic candy store in Queenscliff, Victoria which had both Fags and other varieties, including larger candy cigars. From age 8-14 or so on holidays to Queenscliff I was a candy chain smoker, a pack of Fags and a dozen cigars a day. Never smoked a single tobacco product though.[/QUOTE

Love Queenscliff, but I don't think your shop is still there.

 

[DutchIndo]

I also agree with Tango Yankee. I also grew up in the 60s under similar circumstances. I chewed ate candy cigarettes (there were 2 types gum and chalky) but never smoked cigs. On the other hand I smoke Cigars. This is probably due to the fact I also chewed bubble gum Cigars. I remember going to Knotts Berry Farm and getting them there. They had a "General Store" where me and my Brothers would buy Blue and Pink ones. They came in cellophane and were hard as rocks. We would gnaw on them while drooling all over. 5 cent a Cigar what a bargain for a kid.

 

[Rachael]

I loved candy cigarettes as a child, and have never smoked a day in my life. The idea that children are so easily led 'astray' is milarky and always has been. To raise a child with no concept of the big bad world or the choices out there is to send a young adult out completely unprepared. I don't advocate exposing your children to everything, but just discuss the things they are exposed to and trust them to make sensible decisions when the time comes. Like the after school specials taught us, knowledge is power.

There is a great little shop in my town that has a candy counter with all sorts of wonderful things, including a section devoted to "nostalgia candy". They also have a separate case with candy cigarettes, cigars, and sen-sen but you have to know the password to see that case. and that password is "don't take candy from strangers".

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Foofoogal, how would you feel if "7-Up" were put into imitation vodka bottles and sold to kids that way?

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[Baron Kurtz]

How about a gram of sherbet in a nice little zip-lock baggie?

bk

 

[Foofoogal]

I smoked as a teen up till time I got pregnant with first child. My father died from lung cancer with mesothelioma and father in law with lung cancer smoking 2 packs of Pall Mall without the filter. My 2 grown children have now quit thank the Lord. I do detest cigarettes but I also am a bit tired of the no self responsibility trend.

Foofoogal, how would you feel if "7-Up" were put into imitation vodka bottles and sold to kids that way?

Different time and different place including different parents.
I am hearing the cigarettes now are being made from more junk and even will not burn easy and keep going out. Like I said I detest cigarettes.
Not sure what you are asking Marc.