Any one here remember candy cigarettes ???

ooh yeah, nice.

I remember all my fave lollies from childhood. Cobbers (choc covered caramel squares, bit like fantales only a harder caramel, could get them with or without coconut) were my fave.

Loved them too! Everyone in my family smoked, so I thought I was cool with my candy cigs. And yeah, I remember the Flintsone cigarette commercials. Good times!

Heck yes, that's why I smoke the real ones today!!!!!

Sounds good. Most of our candy was cheap and tacky.

sounds good to me

, me too

Yep, used to smoke them and crayons. I think they gave me that mental nudge to start the real ones.

I remember them...with the little red ends. I used to love going to the store to pick up a bag of penny candy, at that time the candy was 3 for a penny, so for 10cents we used to get alot of candy!

were they the white chalky ones in the box with X men characters ?? lol

I think Taiwan still sells them. They're probably made in China... so extra bad!

yes yes, this 100% , loved the red tips, that was cool , and yes penny candy was abundance , a dime would get you a samll bag of candy that would last for the day, if you didn't share

Last Edited by JUST HERE on 03/28/2013 05:39 AM

They are still around though not as common. I see them in non-franchise groceries a lot because major chains won't touch the things. And they are marked as "candy sticks" now and not "candy cigarettes".

One or two packs of them usually turn up in my kids' sacks on Halloween.

thanks for the information , i'm going trick or treating this year j/k

I remember sugar candy. I loved those too.

Heck, I remember the horse and buggy too.

Yes, they were very very hard to light.

There also used to be bubble gum cigars which I don't see at all anymore.

Anybody remember the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain"? It was about an imaginary paradise for hobos riding the rails. There used to be a line there about "cigarette trees".

Later, the piece was re-written as a childrens' song for about candy-land. In that version, which is the only one you hear these days, the cigarette trees were replaced by cinnamon trees.

One of those packages is probably worth a fortune on ebay.

www.groovycandies.com

you can buy all your favs

They still sell them here in Japan because my 3 year old son once picked up a box when picking a candy at the grocery store. I didn'T realize that's what it was until we opened the package at home. I broke them up and he ate it like normal candy. lol.

Candy cigarettes, along with wax cigars filled with sugar water were my gateway drug to a full blown cigarette addiction for 38 years.

Been smoke free 25 days as of today.



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They still sell them.
But now they are "off" brands.
When I was a kid Pall Mall was my favorite
because that was what my parents smoked.

I bought a box for old time's sake last year.
They taste about the same, only less sweet
than I remember.

Probably HFCS instead of Cane Sugar.