Big Tabacco's most evil venture - selling cancer to children

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Gawd, I can remember those - white sticks with a red tip that somehow made you feel more grown-up.


There was a time you'd think nothing of seeing young kids puffing on candy cigarettes. Parents would even hand them out on Halloween. Smoking was KOOL. "Just Like Daddy!" one candy ad promised. Hershey Corporation started the trend a century ago when it began hawking chocolate smokes, and by the 1920s, companies such as World Candies and Necco were selling a chalky white version. You could also get skinny bubble gum cigs in white paper tubes. Bonus: Blowing

" In a 2007 study that surveyed 25,000 people, researchers at the University of Rochester found that respondents who consumed candy cigarettes as kids were roughly twice as likely as those who hadn't to report that they later became smokers. "


http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/10/marketing-candy-cigarettes-tobacco-halloween