Candy Cigarettes

[ODBJBG]

Anyone remember candy cigarettes? Well if you do you'll want to read my look back at this classically bad idea and deliciously tasty candy treat! Check it out!



Infinite Hollywood: Candy Cigarettes - Taste The Tobacco Memories

[wayne foundation 07]

There is a store in Cleveland called B.A. Sweetie that still sells them,they have a large collection of 70's candies.With stuff like that promoted to us,its amazing we turned out half as good as we did.A 6 year old pretending to smoke, what were we thinking

[sauce]

Love those! I gotta get some!!!!

[Mikey]

Back in the day my local mom and pop ice cream place used top carry them.

I always had to get a pack

Funny thing is, they weren't really that good -- just tasted like chalky sugar --- but I wanted them because I love the fake cigarette packs they came in.

BTW, am I the only person who was ALWAYS let down the "lighted end" never tasted any different than the rest of it ?

[raider5gt]

Yeah we had similar over here,the chalky type and chocolate ones,covered in paper,i think it was rice paper on them,i hope so,as i used to eat the lot LoL

I did like the Chalky ones the best

[AAAAA]

there still made

[Orlock]

I used to get these and when I was really adventurous, I'd get the bubble gum cigars or cigarettes. They had paper rolled around them and powdered sugar between the paper and the gum so when you puffed on them, "smoke" came out.

My kids get them now, but more often than not, they get the generic "candy sticks" that come in the Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Iron Man, Popeye, or Tom and Jerry boxes with two little candy sticks inside. You can normally find a whole bag of these for about a buck fifty or buy bigger boxes the size of the candy cigarette packs at the dollar store. They have trading cards on the back. You can still find the candy cigarettes though at most gas stations around here.

[MysteryWho]

I bet they didn't dip the "lit" end of a candy cigarette in another flavor because of that one kid, you know the one, who would put their Gramma's burning cigarette into their mouth one sunny afternoon.
It's weird how many toys and things were meant to resemble a "grown-up" activity. I think we can safely lay blame for the rampant tattoo abuse of the last several years on all those fake monster tattoos we had that never worked properly
When I was a kid the only people I ever saw with tattoos were veterans with anchors on their forearms. Now every girl over the age of 18 has a "tramp stamp".

[vulcan2074]

I used to Love those as a kid. I haven't had those in so long. Cool memories.
Sammy

[Meule]

Loved them as a kid, been quite a while tho since I ate some

[Nostalgiabuff]

I liked the gum ones better. i agree they were a bad idea to market to kids but they never made me start smoking either.

[toys2cool]

my bro use to love those

[HardyGirl]

Oh man, my mom HATED these things! Mainly b/c my dad smoked like a chimney. I did still buy them from time to time, but I told her that I didn't want to smoke, I just wanted these. I also got the bubble gum cigars w/ the paper and powdered sugar "smoke". I seem to remember they tasted like lemon flavored gum.

[Goblin19]

We still have them at a big candy store by my house. They really are a pretty bad idea.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Yum I loved those.