Wow, that completely explains this heroin addiction.
Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke
Submitted 2 months ago by GreenDust@lemmings.world to [deleted]
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tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It tracks.
loki518@feddit.org 2 months ago
baseball, huh
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its starts with sherbet powder, by high school they’re snorting cocaine off the toilet seats…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
INJECT THE BLUERASBERRY JUICE DIRECTLY INTO MY VEEEEEEEIIIIIIINSSSSS!
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where else would it go? The veins are blue!
Lag@piefed.world 2 months ago
The square hole.
probablymissing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“sweet addiction”
holy shit they aren’t even trying
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Real cheese^tm
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
That’s a gateway drug. They start with one of those after school and the next think you know they’re sniffing pixie sticks off the stomach of a janitor and selling grandma’s urn for a single Laffy Taffy.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s insane that we ban kinder eggs but don’t ban “baby’s first heroin needle”. This has to stop.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The amount of plastic for just a small tube of sweet paste…
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Literally called “Sweet Addiction”. LOL WTF.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Illegal where? I have to go to a novelty candy store in my area, because it’s the only place I can think of that sells them…but it’s legal here.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months 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?
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
This narrative has always confused me because they sit on the shelf at my Kroger
GreenDust@lemmings.world 2 months ago
because it’s the only place I can think of that sells them…
Because they’re illegal to sell elsewhere 🤯
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I can go to my Kroger and buy them right now though
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m not sure it’s legal to call them candy cigarettes though - I’ve always seen them called something else. Yup, it’s illegal to call them cigarettes in the US, and they vary in legality elsewhere.
I only ever see them for sale in places that sell old fashioned candy, I think their decline has to do with the fact they just don’t taste very good (in addition to the changing cultural opinions about cigarettes, but I bet they’ve declined even in places where a large percentage of adults still smoke).
watermelonpaloma@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I bought a pack of candy cigarettes the last time I visited the US, just a couple years ago. I was so surprised that they are still being made.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
no longer sold as “candy”.
sold as a “novelty item”.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re still sold here in Kansas as both. They also sell them as “candy sticks” in little packets with popular characters on it so everyone can talk about how they used to look like malboros.
watermelonpaloma@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Well, I found that ‘novelty item’ in the candy section of the corner shop.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mystery boxes teach them to gamble
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whereas vapes just fully supplant the habit and are a different kind of lung disease
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just like mommy! See, because one of the quickest ways to get treatment for heroin addiction is to get pregnant. I wonder if it’s a 2 digit percentage of births nationwide at this point.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t let RFK Jr. see these or he’ll have them banned for encouraging vaccinations.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You know what? I think I’ll go tell him exactly that! Use the stupid for good. Not only because kids should have to use their own initiative to get addicted to drugs, but it’s also too much plastic and sugar.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Can we start a conspiracy theory that Microplastics cause Autism?