Ironically, it appears that the responsibility for restricting candy cigarette sales in the US has been left up to large national retailers such as the Wal-Mart chain, which has a company-wide policy banning the sale of cigarette look-alike products to minors in all 50 states. According to the press release, US federal and all but one state legislative efforts at banning candy cigarettes have been unsuccessful (the one exception was later repealed). did not ban candy cigarettes but other countries including the UK, Australia, and Canada restrict candy cigarette sales. In the US they are typically displayed next to the bubble gum and the trading cards commonly sold in supermarkets and convenience stores. They are made of candy or gum, and sold in rectangular boxes roughly the size of cigarette packs.
manufacturers of candy cigarettes, Necco and World Candies, have voluntarily renamed their products to "Candy Stix" and just "Candy," respectively, according to multiple Web sites. Candy cigarettes have a long and dark history. This new research is built on past research, such as focus groups in the US with 4 to 11 year-old children and a survey of 7th graders which indicated that playing with candy cigarettes may actually desensitize children to the harm of real smoking. The study, published in July’s Preventive Medicine says make-believe cigarette smoking may be considered illicit and mature by some children, but research suggests that playing with these edible “toys” cannot be considered as a benign parody of cigarette smoking. Some 12% of smokers said they had never tried the candy, while 22% of non-smokers hadn't. The research found that 22% of smokers said they had regularly had candy cigarettes as kids, while 14% of nonsmokers said the same. At least that’s the conclusion of a study of almost 26,000 adults in the US released today. Seems likely that if you smoke now you ate those candy cigarettes as a child.
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