Candy Cigarettes A Good of Bad thing? Effect on Children?

I think people should not give there kids candy cigrattes lol because it is like when they get older and sombody passes them a cigratte they like oh i had these wen i was lil so they take it and then ur kid is smokin u ko

Yes, I do think that they should be taken off the market. If ciggarette companies are not allowed to market to kids (Joe Camel), then yes I do think they should not be able to sell them. Children want to grow up quickly, and do the things that adults do. I think that this is one issue that they do not need to emulate.

I, my hubby, and many more of friends and family have played with these and none of use ended up smoking. I just think it comes down to parents saying something about it. I was always told real smoking is bad and could get you sick. I do the same with my children. I constenly tell them about the dangers of it. I did not know that they still made them though. I was just talking about them a few days ago.

No I don't think it would have an effect on kids. I knew many kids who played with those and never smoked and have no desire to smoke. It's a bit silly to blame a candy for what people do later in life. If kids want to pretend they are smoking they will find something to use. It's pretend it's not real. Just because a child plays with something doesn't mean they will do it later in life. Just like the little wax bottles with the juice in them, that look a lot like little bottles of liquer, don't cause kids to want to drink later in life.

my kids eat them all the time. we can get them at the dollar store 10 for $1.00. As my son got a little older, he copied a smoking action with one of them and I told him to not do that. smoking is bad...blah blah blah. my husband smokes so i can't get like really mad at my son...he's just copying his daddy. ME and my husband just talked to him and told him that it is bad to smoke and those are just candy sticks. He hasn't done it since. And, he always talks about how bad cigs are! I think it parents talk to their kids, it's not a problem.

You do not see them any more over the counters, which means that someone thought of the negative impact these had on children

Well, I never really heard of them before. But, from what you're saying I think they could make alot of kids somke even more. I think they are under control now, so I do not see why they should be baned at all.

I remeber those. I haven't seen them around so I figured they stopped making them. They were around when I was little and I bought them. I remeber acting like I was smoking. Then I ate them. I have never smoked a day in my life. So I think they may be good as candy and for fun but they won't affect kids desicion on smoking or not.

i do not courage such types of candy coz for sure it courages kids for future smoking

i use to love them when i was a kid but never saw them for a very long time, i think that what got me in the bad habbit of smoking, so i think its bad

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do not courage such types of candy

they are a bad idea they make smokng out to luck cool, and kids want to start when they are older.

they want to imitate their parents... that's all

well i guess with all the hub bub on smoking, it should be banned. i had them as a child and it did make me want to smoke. i used to take them and blow the powder out the end. i think we are banning too much.

This brought to my memory once, I liked it very much. But I used that to the real one, I was blamed from my aunt. I quit from that.

candy cigrattes were really famous when i was a kid but i think now they should be outlawed may be it has a wrong effect on children..

They were very popular back in my childhood days. We all pretended like we were smoking them and then would eat them. But not all of us took up smoking. I dont think they should be outlawed. Back in the days they were popular, smoking was accepted by everyone. Everyone smoked. The tv was full of famous people smoking. No one thought negatively about it. Its not like that anymore. Has a stigma to it so it wouldnt become popular these days.

I was one of those that thought they were banned! I have not seen a pkg of those in years. My boys used to get the bubble gum kind that were wrapped in paper. If you blew out on them a puff of cornstarch or sugar would come out of the end. They thought it was awesome. None of them ever took up smoking though. I was always nagging them that it was a waste of money to smoke. I'm not sure what effect it would have had on any other kids.

what i think is that, cigrattes as usual very ingurious to health and these things are realy effectint to children becas the only thing is waist of money and destorying the mentality of small kids . They think it is good but in deed is like a virus which kills u very slowly.