Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take

daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s like marketing a vape with no nicotine to kids

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  • Pennywise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh, like candy cigarettes and big league chew.

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    • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh, like candy cigarettes and big league chew.

      Yeah… Which was also a bad idea… of which most of the world won’t accept in the modern age.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cigarette#Sales_laws

      Big league chew, I guess was a bit more on the fence because it’s less obvious and it avoids any words that directly link it to chewing tobacco.

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      • Pennywise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Amazon sells candy cigarettes.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      you leave my Spider-Man cigarettes out of this!

      (The 90’s were crazy)

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• terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because it’s clear they want kids to start drinking budweiser young. It’s marketing budweiser to minors, whether it has alcohol or not.

  What do you think all that marketing does? Gets them drinking more budweiser as adults.

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• WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think these people haven’t been aware of near-beer sales to kids going back over 60 years. Kids have been able to buy them here in Canada for longer than that, that is just the oldest person I have know to buy a 6pack of near-beer as a 5 year old kid.

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  • Pennywise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well the industrious kiddos just go to the store buy some juice and some sugar and some yeast.

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