I saw candy cigarettes in the store today...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

I thought they'd been outlawed years ago.

Of course they don't call them "candy cigarettes", but it's clear that they are...cigarette pack-type container, pics similar to those on ciggy packs.

It turns my stomach.

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. I used to love those

They tasted soooooo good.

Of course, I was a freak, I ate them with the paper...same as those candy dots that came on those long rolls of paper.

:)

[TXlib]

2. Check out

Candy You Ate As A Kid

I think you can find 'em there, too.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Wow! Wax bottles!

Remember when life's greatest concern was whether or not you consumed the wax?

[trogdor]

3. Don't worry about it.

Damn things taste like sticks of chalk.

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Still on the market, 'cause the candy store at Mast General Store has them

I doubt they were ever outlawed. Either supermarkets stopped carrying them due to bad publicity, or a law was passed to keep them from being sold in places they'd likely be seen by children (like checkout lines). Where did you see them?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. In the candy section...

I loved 'em too; but they could package them differently...to discourage pretending they're cigarettes...

[BurtWorm]

5. I used to love the candy cigarette bubble gum

fruit flavored, I think. Each cigarette was a different color, and each was individually wrapped in its own cigarette paper. The chocolate cigarettes were tasty, too. But I never liked the chalky, minty ones that came all together and had red spots on the tips, as though they were all lit. And I wasn't a big fan of the banana or mint flavored bubble-gum cigars.

But you're right: it's sick if they still make and purvey them.

[SiouxJ]

7. Did you ever blow out the dust

on the bubblegum ones? I guess it was flour, not dust, but anyway, it looked like smoke. You could only do it once but we thought it looked so cool. Funny, there are few things in this world I hate as much as cigarettes but I loved the bubble gum and chocolate ones when I was a kid. I did smoke as a teen though.

[Philosophy]

8. Very realistic

I always sucked in the dust and started hacking.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Glad I wasn't exposed to second hand candy cigarette dust...

LOL!

[SiouxJ]

12. Lol! Bubblegumer's hack!

novice! ;-)

[Robb]

10. Same here on all counts

...Although I'm pretty sure the smoking wasn't from getting started with bubblegum ciggies.

I think it was two things: 1) I wasn't supposed to, and 2) the drug felt good. I think if folks working on anti-smoking stuff (of which I approve) would just admit the second part, kids might take it a little more seriously. But what do I know....