These are still around??????
Not only are they still available…and not just in the vintage and collector circuits either. Why did my 6 year-old ask me to buy him these yesterday?
I was taken aback. I remember having these as a kid but I’m 36!! He even was able to articulate that the sugar inside was like the smoke from a grown-up cig. I asked where he saw these and he said the little girl who lives down the street. The girl is around 8 and is being raised by her grandmother in a house with 4 other kids she has custody of.
Who would buy these for their children in this day and age? I of course told him no and “tried” to explain my reason. Of course to a 6 year-old, he could not understand why I didn’t understand his rationale that “mom, I hear what you’re saying but like I keep saying, it.is.not.a.real.cigarette.ok?”
Thoughts???
I can’t remember the gum ones but I do remember the hard candy cigs. Just for play or not I still don’t like the ideal, yeah um no it just sends the wrong message.
Comment by UmmAslam — September 11, 2008 @ 11:03p
I remember those. My mom (a heaaaavy chain smoker) gave them to me when I was little and I wanted to be like her. I started smoking when I was 17 (I always said I never would, but you know how things go) and quit 3 years later. I honestly think those play cigs+my mom’s example actually taught me how to smoke.
That’s my long-winded way of saying I wouldn’t let my kids have them. But I don’t yet have children, so I might not have the best opinion.
Comment by Tasha — September 15, 2008 @ 5:43p