Cig makers say "they don't market to kids." BULLSHIT!

[Archae]

During the 1960's, the cig makers had ads showing Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble lighting up.
Now this! :mad:

Candy-Flavored Real Cigarettes Attracting Teens' Attention
Anti-Smoking Activists Concerned Over Marketing Of Colorful Cigarettes

UPDATED: 9:16 AM EST December 3, 2004

PHILADELPHIA -- You've heard of candy cigarettes, but how about real cigarettes with a hint of candy flavor?

The new, flavored cigarettes from Camel have anti-tobacco activists up in arms. Many teens seem to like them, and the manufacturers said the brand is in demand.

The cigarettes come in flavors like lime, berry, pineapple and coconut.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/family/3967974/detail.html

[chuckrocks]

1. i get stuff in the mail

from camel and marlboro. we got a pair of hard packs, ready to fold on the dotted lines and...make your own cigg box! yeah nothing leaning towards kids at all.

[johnnie]

2. To be fair

The Flintstones was an adult cartoon. Just saying.....

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Oh, then I'm ABSOLUTELY certain there was NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER

to target kids with those ads. </sarcasm>

[Philostopher]

3. They've been selling Indian cigarettes called Bidis

for almost a decade, now. Same deal, fruit flavors and stuff like vanilla and chocolate, only no filters on them. Guess Brown and Williamson got burned (pun intended) the first time this kind of crap happened, back when I was in college and everybody was smoking Jakartas (clove cigarettes, which can cause asthma attacks and lung hemorrhages). Those, too were aimed at college students.

[Champ]

4. I've seen Peach, apple, cinnamon, strawberry, mint, and even tequila

flavored cigars. I don't really see the difference here, I can imagine alot of adults don't like the taste of a regular cigarettes but may like the fruit flavors.

[Droopy]

5. They've been making flavored cigars and snuff for years

I don't chew very often, but when I do I get either wintergreen Beechnut or Skoal mint. A guy I work with smokes cherry and chocolate flavored cigars.

[seafey]

6. They need to start concentrating on binkys... nt

[baba]

7. Toffee and peppermint flavors

Camel is selling these "winter" flavors right now. I'm not a smoker, but I can see how it would be appealing. Kind of like lip gloss that's flavored, but bad for you.

[Left Is Write]

8. I saw an ad for that -

The ad featured a pretty cartoon girl in a little green dress, and touted both menthol and regular flavors with their "Christmas" and "Winter" flavors.

[SmileyBoy]

9. "Winston tastes good, like a (click, click) cigarette should..."

:puke:

[arwalden]

10. Those Sound Like COCKTAIL Flavors...

I'd be more alarmed if they had "bubble-gum" or "marshmallow" or "chocolate" flavored cigarettes.

[jmowreader]

12. They're just trying to compete with Swisher and Phillies

I work in a place where at least 75 percent of the employees are under 30, and many of them smoke. And a lot of those people, who range from 22 to 28, are changing from cigarettes to flavored short-filler cigars. I've tried them and they're not my cup of tea--they taste like you peeled the wrapper off a cheap cigar, dipped it in kool-aid and put it back on the cigar after it dried, so you get this mouthful of weird artificial taste plus all the glorious flavor of a really bad cigar. But fuck it, man, they're really not trying to get the long-filler cigar smokers to switch. And you can smoke one on a fifteen-minute break.

I can't imagine that only Home Depot associates are smoking flavored cigars, and I don't have to. Every time I go to the tobacco store down the street from my house, there are two or three young adults in there buying fifty-count boxes of these little smokes. When I ask these folks how they got into flavored cigars, they almost invariably answer that they changed from cigarettes.

This is the big trend, and the cigarette manufacturers need to do everything they can to stop it. Hence, flavored cigarettes. My people say one of the things that's hardest about changing is that they have to relearn to smoke--you don't inhale cigars like you do cigarettes. There's no retraining involved with flavored cigarettes.

I think these will be really popular among the twentysomethings.