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Originally Posted by Paloma
This is less likely especially in America nowadays, flavored cigarettes (besides menthol if that counts) are illegal, specifically to stop kids from smoking early because those cigarettes taste like candy. Cigarettes don't exactly taste good, unless they're clove or flavored, so bully that.
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Oh, I meant actual *candy* cigarettes (like the bubblegum ones shown), not cigarettes that have added flavoring. I didn't know real cigarettes with added flavoring even existed!
I looked up the laws about candy cigarettes and found that the U.S. still allows them. In Canada, the candy cigarette industry faces a little more legal control: the packaging on candy cigarettes can't be made to resemble real cigarette branding.
Meanwhile, selling candy cigarettes has been downright banned in several countries: Finland,
Norway, the Republic of Ireland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. I guess Tore isn't getting high off sugar cigarettes during his MusicBanter hiatus, unless he is part of some underground candy cigarette smuggling ring in Europe!
I found out that the U.S. Family Smoking and Prevention Control Act bans any form of added flavoring in tobacco cigarettes other than menthol--so that must be the law you're referring to, Paloma. My gosh, those people at cigarettes companies who added kid-enticing flavoring to cancer sticks are almost diabolical! I wish I were religious, then I could call them diabolical.
I "smoked" bubblegum cigarettes when I was a kid. I thought they were cool.
They weren't very good bubblegum though.
My memory of bubblegum cigarettes is that they were very hard and difficult to chew, with little taste. Maybe I had the wrong brand of candy cigarette. Maybe another candy cigarette brand would have been more flavorful.