Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not illegal here, but sufficiently heavily discouraged and socially frowned upon that indeed, you have to look hard to find em.

  Instead, we let 11 year olds order vapes from china now.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ha ha ha, yeah. Not like when I was a kid in the 80s, and everybody smoked. Walls were just brown.

    Just…all walls.

    So glad that as generations went on, smoking habits have seemed to fall off a cliff.

    Instead, we let 11 year olds order vapes from china now.

    Wait, what?

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• Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This narrative has always confused me because they sit on the shelf at my Kroger

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• GreenDust@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  because it’s the only place I can think of that sells them…

  Because they’re illegal to sell elsewhere 🤯

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  • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can go to my Kroger and buy them right now though

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