Fruity flavored cigarettes/tobacco

I guess the older you get, the further out of the loop you are. My daughter came home the other day and told me her friend had bought a pack of bubble gum flavored cigarettes. I was floored! I'd never heard of such a thing. Here I thought this was something new. Apparently, they've been on the market for some years now.

Just what we need....fruity tasting cigarettes to entice teens to become addicted to tobacco. I am a smoker, but I find this ridiculous! It's bad enough kids want to experiment with smoking, but now the tobacco companies want to make them taste good too? I have a real problem with this.

I'm sure you can google fruit flavored cigarettes, like I did. Here's one article I found.

family.samhsa.gov...

Are any of you as upset about this as I am? These are clearly targeted for teens. Am I the last person in the world to hear of these?

I've never heard of them either.
I've smoked for over 30 years and was shocked when they came out with a cigarette that you can change from regular flavor to menthol in mid smoke

Friends went to Bali a few years ago and came back with some smokes that smell really nice and i don't smoke but i was tempted NOT!!

It is the same kind of marketing that the people do who make alcohol They target the younger people....trying to make the taste better so they can sell more product..

thats novell

used to smoke black cherry flavored tobacco about 10 years back when there was still a local tobaconist store, the peach was ok but the chocolate was terrible,

it was always hand rolling tobacco first time ive seen it pre-rolled

tobaconists stores are a dying breed, found a link to one in brighton

ex]Hand Rolling Tobacco (loose)We stock a large selection of hand rolling tobacco, which is primarily from Auld Kendal though we do also have other brands from time to time. At the time of writing we had over 20 flavours of loose hand rolling tobacco in stock. www.taylors-tobacconists.com...

Oh that's nothing new

Candy cigarettes (sometimes called sugar fags in the United Kingdom) is a candy introduced in the early 19th century made out of chalky sugar, bubblegum or chocolate that resembles cigarettes

19th century?
sugar fags?

Their place on the market has long been controversial because many critics believe the candy desensitizes children, leading them to become smokers later in life. Because of this, the selling of candy cigarettes has been banned in several countries such as Finland, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia[citation needed]. In the United States a ban was considered in 1970 and again in 1991, but was not passed into federal law.[citation needed] The U.S. state of North Dakota enacted a ban on candy cigarettes from 1953 until 1967.[1] In Canada federal law prohibits candy cigarette branding that resembles real cigarette branding[2] and the territory of Nunavut has banned all products that resemble cigarettes[3].

en.wikipedia.org...

Nothing new under the sun, eh?

I remember when I was a little kid I was pretending to smoke one of those candy cigarettes.

Now I am a smoker. Go figure.

reply to post by Clark W. Griswold


When I was a kid you could go to the corner candy store and buy yourself a pack of candy cigarettes, in various brands too.

I thought they were pretty cool, and tasty.

Then along came the control freaks who insisted that it made kids end up smoking and they stop making them.

But I can attest that it wasnt the candy cigarettes that made me turn to smoking. It was a decision I made all on my own. And I think that is the case with all smokers and those who start.. they make the choice by themselves and are not influenced by some bubble gum or candy or advertising sign. People cant be that easily swayed......but then again...........look who's fixing to be sworn in.





Cheers!!!!

My daughter who is a non smoker, said they smelled so good, she took a puff off one. I took a puff off my first cigarette when I was 13. I haven't quit yet. The first puff is all it takes.

I could be wrong, but I believe candy cigarettes were made at a time when it was ok to smoke. These real candy cigarettes are being made and targeted towards young people when we all know the dangers of tobacco.

I remember those candy bubble gum cigarettes and the cigarette sugar sticks. I had them when I was a kid. They had nothing to do with my taking up smoking.

Flavored smokes have been around for years. If all it takes is fruity tasting cigarettes to entice teens to smoke, I'd say the problem is stupid teens. The flavor doesn't change the fact it's still a cigarette. We can't start prohibiting everything under the sun to simply protect stupid people from themselves. Hey, maybe we can deal with obesity by prohibiting good tasting food, ha.

When I was in high school nobody smoked anything flavored unless you count the redneck kids who smoke Scwisher Sweets and the "ghetto" kids who smoked Newports yet the flavored tobacco products were certainly available. They were just gross.

Now that I'm thirty I still see rednecks smoking those gross flavored cigars and "ghetto" folk still smoking Newports.

I cant say these products target kids any more or specifically over adults. They target people like their products to taste like crap. The same people who drink garbage like flavored Boones Farm, flavored martinis and crap like Pucker.

It's gross enough to smoke but holy christ is it disgusting to smoke something flavored like bubble gum.

Regarding the flavored tobaccos - I'm a fan of the vanilla filtered cigars.

And candy cigarettes and bubble gum? They still have them at my local tobacco shoppe. Nice thing about them being I can still get my oral fixation on when I don't want an actual cigarette or little cigar.

And on the issue of these fruity flavors inticing kids to smoke - well, even though I consume the substance myself, I certainly caution younger smokers that 15 years into it (if they're still at it) they might come to regret their decision. "Lung Butter" and hacking coughs are no fun first thing in the morning.

I've been trying to quit for over eight years without much sucess - though I have managed in cutting down substantially.

Yep, been around for years. I like Black Cherry and the vanilla rollies mysef. I'm not a regular smoker but if I do smoke it's either Nat Sherman Hint of Mint or the latter.

Rolling your own is so much nicer.

The only people that smoked flavoured cigarettes/cigars when I was growing up used them to roll their weed with. Now I guess it's the "cool" thing for the kids. I used to work in a wholesale store that supplied tobacco products to stores and the variety of tobacco/cigarette products in mind boggling. Here in Ontario a new law has passed that cigarettes must be hidden from view in stores as to not entice the minors. I'm not sure if that's going to work or not.