By the way, Candy cigarettes first hit the market in the early 1930s, by 1970 they toned them down in packaging and quit calling them cigarettes as the feds considered a national law, in 1967 North Dakota banned them.
It’s not pushing drugs to children. It’s a stupid candy, doesn’t look like pot, doesn’t taste like pot, isn’t pot, doesn’t really have anything to do with pot, except a stupid name. Which was probably chosen knowing it would irritate whiny people, thus generating news stories, thus free publicity.
Percentage of smokers was very high for decades before anybody invented candy cigarettes. And it was a generation that grew up on candy cigarettes that started us down the path of not smoking. Smoking led to the candy, not the other way around.
By the way, Candy cigarettes first hit the market in the early 1930s, by 1970 they toned them down in packaging and quit calling them cigarettes as the feds considered a national law, in 1967 North Dakota banned them.