"Nassau slaps restriction on candy cigarettes"

[dem629]

Nassau Democrats passed a bill Monday to make candy retailers put candy and bubble-gum cigarettes behind the counter, much like real cigarettes.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-ponass2712399099jan27,0,7047892.story

File Under: Stupid Laws

[skygazer]

1. I don't know - I don't really like the whole candy cigarette thing

I remember when I was a kid - I loved those things. And we used them to pretend that we had the real thing. Making something as dangerous as cigarettes seem fun and cool doesn't seem like a great idea to me. I wish they didn't make them at all.

[dem629]

2. Should we spay and neuter chocolate bunnies, too?

[hippywife]

3. skygazer has a real point.

Your snark was uncalled for.

[dem629]

6. OUTRAGE!

Everyone get offended!

[hippywife]

7. You know what

dumbass? I wish they would stop making them, too. There's absolutely no reason a kid should have something like that to encourage playing at smoking.

They were really big when I was a kid, too. It was very popular to smoke back then. I grew up with a habit I can't seem to shake off and that will probably be the death of me.

So take your feigned outrage and shove it, k?

[dem629]

10. Wow. Such anger. I'm sorry you're having a bad day.

:hug:

[PVnRT]

29. Wrong spot

[TommyO]

31. You made the choice to have that first cigarette

Nobody forced it on you.

[hippywife]

32. How old are you?

I'm old enough that it wasn't as well known as the scourge it is so well known as today. And like all young people, I thought I was bullet-proof. Nothing has changed. Too many young people still think it can't hurt 'em no matter what anyone says or shows them.

[TommyO]

43. What does my age have to do with the fact that you made the choice to smoke?

I grew up in a house where both of my parents smoked, my brothers and I all ate candy cigarettes, my brothers and I have never smoked cigarettes. We made the choice not to smoke.

[PVnRT]

9. Maybe we should cell Candy Cocaine and Candy Ecstasy too

[JVS]

What do you think pixie stix are?

[MajorChode]

21. You ever snort a pixie stix?

That would be enough to scare off any kid from drugs for life.

[hippywife]

14. Might as well

then they can graduate into the real thing when mommy builds a meth lab in the laundry room.

:hi:

[dem629]

17. No! We should get angry and shriek at the prospect of the idea.

That way, we can put on a public performance about how deeply we think about...candy.

[skygazer]

4. Cool, nice leap of logic there

You're obviously looking for an intelligent discussion. :eyes:

[dem629]

5. Lighten up. Good grief.

If you can't take a light-hearted joke about this and if you're getting all bent because someone won't have a serious discussion about candy cigarettes, well, I just hope your afternoon brightens up.

[PVnRT]

8. Fight on, you hardcore anti-PC rebel you, fight on

[dem629]

13. You fight on, too, oh earnest and serious one.

[PVnRT]

37. I think you need to head back to Fark

There, you can whine with all the other college libertarians about how this is the "Nanny State" like, holding you down and stuff.

[dem629]

39. I think you need to head back to Fark

Since you seem so obsessed with it that you bring it up here, with no relation to anything I have written here.

[skygazer]

19. Honey, I think you're the one who needs to lighten up

If you perceive my post as getting "all bent", you maybe need to back away from the computer for a bit. :rofl:

[dem629]

20. Sorry, sweetie.

I thought you were being serious about having a serious discussion about...candy.

I posted the story b/c I thought it was funny in a quirky sort of way. Odd news story and all that. I had no idea there were people out there who took this kind of crusade seriously.

[Midlodemocrat]

33. Dude, seriously.

:wtf:

And, I agree with skygazer.

[dem629]

40. I was asking the same thing.

Who knew a quirky news story would stir up so much Performance Outrage?

[Heidi]

18. Are you a smoker or former smoker? (nt)

[Bake]

22. You do that with the first bite ...

Bake

[TommyO]

30. We used to have them all the time when we were kids

Neither my brothers nor I smoke. The simplest solution is for parents not to buy them for their children.

[supernova]

11. This is silly; Candy ciggies used to be my fave candy

I liked the flavor and the texture. And yes, at that time, both my parents smoked. My dad quit in the mid-70s and my mom eventually quit 10 years later when she retired.

No one was hanging over me telling me how cool I looked with one.

In an odd way, because I got to practice "smoking" with them, I got the chance to see how pretentious and stupid the real habit was.

[JVS]

16. I liked the ones that were gum wrapped up in paper. You could blow in it before unwrapping it and..

a puff of powdered sugar would come out the other end and look like smoke

[JVS]

12. Doesn't this just make buying candy cigarettes even cooler?

More like the real thing, you know

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Yep. I love bubble gum cigs and cigars, but I never ever considered smoking the real deal

[MajorChode]

26. Regardless it's simply makes the idea of smoking palatable to kids at a young age

When I was a kid the candy cigs looked very much like a pack of Lucky Strikes. Bubble gum cigars were really more of an adult novelty item for dads to hand out to non-smoking friends after a kid was born. They were widely available and I partook in all of them as a young lad. I never took up cigarette smoking, but that doesn't mean others weren't heavily influenced.

But the bottom line is they are really not any better than the Joe Camel ads. They market the idea of smoking to kids if not the actual implements of smoking themselves. The harsh reality is if you don't take up smoking by the time you are 21, the odds of a person smoking later in life drops off to nil. Any marketing of even the idea of smoking to kids is a really bad idea and is something that has far outlived it's time.

[Midlodemocrat]

34. Exactly.

:thumbsup:

[GreenPartyVoter]

41. Oh, I agree. I'm just saying that for me they provided no boost to take up smoking, mainly

because in my home we were all after my parents to quit because we were all very aware of the health risks.

I didn't even realize the things still existed. I thought they must have been done away with because I don't think I have seen any in 20 years.

[MajorChode]

42. I have seen them in some time either

Perhaps they have started to make a comeback.

[Dr. Strange]

36. Heh.

Good point.

[Bake]

23. I guess bubble gum cigars are out of the question then.

PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!! THIS IS THE LOUNGE, FER CRYIN OUT LOUD!

Let's try not to get too outraged in here. Save that for GD/GDP.

Bake

[SoxFan]

24. Good to see Long Island has solved every other problem

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. They oughta slap restrictions on blowfish testicles

[Inchworm]

27. Huh? We used to smoke doobs openly

at the pool hall in Bimini.

Oh, wait.. not the island, eh?

:hide:

[madrchsod]

28. i loved candy cigarettes when i was a kid a thousand years ago

i never liked bubble gum

[Lucian]

35. Democrats passed that?

Jesus Christ.

Stupid law indeed.

[LeftinOH]

38. My cousins and I used to enjoy freaking out grandma with those...

..i.e; "What on earth are you kids doing back there?! Get those filthy cigarettes out of your mouths!"