GreenDust

Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke

https://lemmings.world/post/42232859

Mar 4 at 7:11pmWeb
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Mar 4
INJECT THE BLUE RASPBERRY JUICE DIRECTLY INTO MY VEEEEEEEIIIIIIINSSSSS!
Show threadjqubedMar 4
Where else would it go? The veins are blue!
Show threadLagMar 5
The square hole.
Show threadSPRUNTMar 4
Don’t let RFK Jr. see these or he’ll have them banned for encouraging vaccinations.
Show threadMouselemmingMar 4
You know what? I think I’ll go tell him exactly that! Use the stupid for good. Not only because kids should have to use their own initiative to get addicted to drugs, but it’s also too much plastic and sugar.
Show threadouRKaoSMar 5
Can we start a conspiracy theory that Microplastics cause Autism?
Show threadVieuxQuebMar 5
For the current administration you want to say it causes gayness ! They will ban plastic like it was the worst.
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMar 5
no, it’s wearing jeans in a suana.
Show threadTapirs_Are_AI_SlopMar 4
Can I use a luer lock style needle with these?
Show threadAWTM_JamesMar 4
These look like they use the inferior Luer slip needles
Show threadTapirs_Are_AI_SlopMar 4
Crap, I’m out with these generic candy syringes. I need the good stuff.
Show threadcaptainlezbianMar 5
Oh those suck
Show threadtpihkalMar 4
Wow, that completely explains this heroin addiction.
Show threadthesohoriotsMar 4
It tracks.
Show threadloki518Mar 4
baseball, huh
Show threadThomasWilliamsMar 5
Its starts with sherbet powder, by high school they’re snorting cocaine off the toilet seats…
Show thread👍Maximum Derek👍Mar 4
That’s a gateway drug. They start with one of those after school and the next thing you know they’re sniffing pixie sticks off the stomach of a janitor and selling grandma’s urn for a single Laffy Taffy.
Show threadJo MiranMar 4
Literally called “Sweet Addiction”. LOL WTF.
Show threadLost_My_MindMar 4
Illegal where? I have to go to a novelty candy store in my area, because it’s the only place I can think of that sells them…but it’s legal here.
Show threadGreenDustMar 4

because it’s the only place I can think of that sells them…

Because they’re illegal to sell elsewhere 🤯

Show threadWaraughMar 4
I can go to my Kroger and buy them right now though
Show threadTar_AlcaranMar 4

It’s not illegal here, but sufficiently heavily discouraged and socially frowned upon that indeed, you have to look hard to find em.

Instead, we let 11 year olds order vapes from china now.

Show threadLost_My_MindMar 4

Ha ha ha, yeah. Not like when I was a kid in the 80s, and everybody smoked. Walls were just brown.

Just…all walls.

So glad that as generations went on, smoking habits have seemed to fall off a cliff.

Instead, we let 11 year olds order vapes from china now.

Wait, what?

Show threadWaraughMar 4
This narrative has always confused me because they sit on the shelf at my Kroger
Show threadAlligatorBlizzardMar 5

I’m not sure it’s legal to call them candy cigarettes though - I’ve always seen them called something else. Yup, it’s illegal to call them cigarettes in the US, and they vary in legality elsewhere.

I only ever see them for sale in places that sell old fashioned candy, I think their decline has to do with the fact they just don’t taste very good (in addition to the changing cultural opinions about cigarettes, but I bet they’ve declined even in places where a large percentage of adults still smoke).

Candy cigarette - Wikipedia

Show threadGrimyMar 4
It’s insane that we ban kinder eggs but don’t ban “baby’s first heroin needle”. This has to stop.
Show threadprobablymissingMar 4

“sweet addiction”

holy shit they aren’t even trying

Show threadthermal_shockMar 5
Real cheese^tm
Show threadnullMar 4
Since candy cigarettes are illigal they just made the cigarettes candy flavored.
Show threadAsidonhopoMar 5
Just like mommy! See, because one of the quickest ways to get treatment for heroin addiction is to get pregnant. I wonder if it’s a 2 digit percentage of births nationwide at this point.
Show threadProprietary_BlendMar 5
Mystery boxes teach them to gamble
Show threadREDACTEDMar 5
The amount of plastic for just a small tube of sweet paste…
Show threadwatermelonpalomaMar 5
I bought a pack of candy cigarettes the last time I visited the US, just a couple years ago. I was so surprised that they are still being made.
Show threadGreenKnight23Mar 5

no longer sold as “candy”.

sold as a “novelty item”.

Show threadPostmortal_PopMar 5
They’re still sold here in Kansas as both. They also sell them as “candy sticks” in little packets with popular characters on it so everyone can talk about how they used to look like malboros.
Show threadwatermelonpalomaMar 18
Well, I found that ‘novelty item’ in the candy section of the corner shop.
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMar 5

But you can buy bags of white candy powder.

Show threadSam_BassMar 5
Whereas vapes just fully supplant the habit and are a different kind of lung disease