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With just about any other product, if someone tries to sell a candy imitation
they are quickly hauled into court by the manufacturers of the real thing.
The tobacco manufacturers are delighted to have children play with candy
cigarettes. It makes the children all the more eager to take up the real thing as
soon as they can.
I would not be surprised if the tobacco manufacturers subsidized the candy
cigarettes and their placement in candy stores.
Dan Nussbaum
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"Honey, Have Some Smokes"
Message from Stuart Weinberg hidden@email-address
> With just about any other product, if someone tries to sell a candy
> imitation
> they are quickly hauled into court by the manufacturers of the real thing.
Examples?
> The tobacco manufacturers are delighted to have children play with candy
> cigarettes. It makes the children all the more eager to take up the real
> thing as
> soon as they can.
Supporting evidence?
I personally liked the milk chocolate cigarettes when I was little. They
tasted great, better than the other kind which was more like a semi-hard
candy. I didn't once reach for a lighter, and I haven't smoked a single
cigarette in my lifetime. In fact, I wouldn't mind a little milk chocolate
cigarette right now...
- Stuart Weinberg
"Honey, Have Some Smokes"
OK, so I will admit I smoked candy cigarettes while my parents smoked
2 packs/day of the real thing. My candy cigs will not kill me,
however I am not as sure about all those eighteen years of secondhand
smoke. No, I did not grow up to smoke following those 18 years of
smoking. Four children did, three did not.
There was not the anti-smoking emphasis then that there is now. That
said, why do we say one thing (home, media, etc.) but allow the
children to continue to "pretend" that they are smoking? Double
messages and confusing. My father just died of COPD and emphysema
and was so SOB until the end. I hope this leaves a lasting memory on
all of his 17 grandchildren. Actually, a better visualization of
these little candy cigarettes would be to refer to them as coffin nails.
Sorry, sumtimes I think it and sumtimes I say it.
Karen Kohlruss RN BSN
my personal opinion..nothing to do with HPA
On Sep 7, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Stuart Weinberg wrote:
>> With just about any other product, if someone tries to sell a candy
>> imitation
>> they are quickly hauled into court by the manufacturers of the
>> real thing.
>>
>
> Examples?
>
>
>> The tobacco manufacturers are delighted to have children play with
>> candy
>> cigarettes. It makes the children all the more eager to take up
>> the real
>> thing as
>> soon as they can.
>>
>
> Supporting evidence?
>
> I personally liked the milk chocolate cigarettes when I was little.
> They
> tasted great, better than the other kind which was more like a semi-
> hard
> candy. I didn't once reach for a lighter, and I haven't smoked a
> single
> cigarette in my lifetime. In fact, I wouldn't mind a little milk
> chocolate
> cigarette right now...
>
> - Stuart Weinberg
>
>
"Honey, Have Some Smokes"
Stuart Weinberg wrote:
> > The tobacco manufacturers are delighted to have children play with candy
> > cigarettes. It makes the children all the more eager to take up the real
> > thing as soon as they can.
>
> Supporting evidence?
There appears to be only a small body of work in the medical press, but
if you're interested, start here:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/89/1/27
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/362
Lara Hopkins
"Honey, Have Some Smokes"
Excellent articles! Makes me want to take them into the candy store
and leave a copy for the owners to read. The BMJ article is excellent!
Karen Kohlruss RN BSN
On Sep 7, 2005, at 10:42 PM, Lara wrote:
> Stuart Weinberg wrote:
>
>
>>> The tobacco manufacturers are delighted to have children play
>>> with candy
>>> cigarettes. It makes the children all the more eager to take up
>>> the real
>>> thing as soon as they can.
>>>
>>
>> Supporting evidence?
>>
>
> There appears to be only a small body of work in the medical press,
> but
> if you're interested, start here:
>
> http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/89/1/27
>
> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/362
>
> Lara Hopkins
>
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"Honey, Have Some Smokes"
>> With just about any other product, if someone tries to sell a candy imitation
>> they are quickly hauled into court by the manufacturers of the real thing.
>Examples?
>> The tobacco manufacturers are delighted to have children play with candy
>> cigarettes. It makes the children all the more eager to take up the real
>> thing as soon as they can.
>Supporting evidence?
>I personally liked the milk chocolate cigarettes when I was little. They
>tasted great, better than the other kind which was more like a semi-hard
>candy. I didn't once reach for a lighter, and I haven't smoked a single
>cigarette in my lifetime. In fact, I wouldn't mind a little milk chocolate
>cigarette right now...
>- Stuart Weinberg
I didn't like the chocolate ones at all but I loved the chalk looking ones - the ones that had a little "puff" of white if you blew hard enough! I was a heavy duty candy smoker.
But I, like you, have not become a smoker. I put a real cigarette to my lips only once - in college when my roommate begged for me to blow smoke in her throbbing ear (something her mom always did for her at home that made it feel better).
Valerie
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