On AOL news, I read a report where several of the cigarette companies allowed/encouraged some candy makers to use their brand names on things like candy cigarettes - which was obviously an attempt to nefariously target innocent children for the evil weed.
Bad cigarette companies! Bad! Bad!
(Pause…)
Say, uh isn’t there candy sold in Mickey Mouse and other Disney character containers and forms?
Uh, well, gee I remember little plastic toy guns filled with colorful candy beads and wax guns filled with sweet juice. Should we yell at the gun makers about this? Come to think of it, I also recall certain, familiar wasp waisted wax bottles filled with sweet, colored juice. Coca Cola targeted kids also? How awful!
Well, darn! I spotted cell phones of plastic filled with candy! Now they’re in the act of seducing our kids. Hey! Haven’t there been images of those mind rotting Pokimon on boxes of cereal, candy and hamburger bags? The Japanese are obviously encouraging our kids to develop bad eating habits.
No mention of the (tasty) bubble gum cigars they used to sell for kids.
Look, I dig that the tobacco companies did wrong, but cripes, are we going to have to suffer through dramatic presentations by the news jerks of everything they did - even things other companies were also doing? I am getting very tired of all of this stuff.
being a strong anti smoker (reformed smokers are the worst), et al, even I have a problem with that story – I believe that kids who start smoking do so mostly because of either peer pressure or because their parents smoke (and to be the only non smoker in a household sucks, pardon the pun), NOT because they put some piece of white cylindrical candy in their mouthes. what’s next??? Bic pens???
How can Disney do this whilst simultaneously ignoring the mounds of data that Mickey Mouse causes lung cancer and slow, painful death? Oh, maybe it’s because the Mouse doesn’t cause cancer, and it’s not really the same thing as cigarette companies trying to get kids mentally hooked early.
Any of y’all seen candy cigarettes recently? They’re not even called candy cigs now. They’re “candy sticks” and they don’t have the pink tip. C’mon nobody ever started smoking at 16 because they ate candy cigs when they were 6! I want my candy cigarettes back dammit!
What bullshit. I am soooo sick of hearing about crap like that. I didn’t start smoking because of an ad I saw on t.v., or because of an ad I saw in a magazine or on a billboard, or because someone famous was smoking in a movie or t.v. show and I know I didn’t start smoking because of candy cigarettes. I used to love those things as a kid. I know lots of us who used to eat candy cigarettes and only a few of us are smokers. I don’t really remember why I started smoking. Peer pressure more than likely because I started when I was a junior in high school.
This is a touchy subject for me so I’ll stop at my statement above. Enough said!
