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Remember Candy Cigarettes?

patbz — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:02:33 GMT

DH and I were remembering fun treats from 50s and 60s; anybody remember candy cigarettes? Talk about brain washing!

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TenderMercies — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:05:52 GMT

Yes, and I remember the gum cigarettes, too. It was a cigarette shaped piece of gum with paper wrapped around it. They would put powdered sugar in the paper and if you blew into the cigarette, it would look like a puff of smoke would come out.

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OKPrincess — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:06:37 GMT

@patbzwrote:
DH and I were remembering fun treats from 50s and 60s; anybody remember candy cigarettes? Talk about brain washing!

Yes, I do. DH and I watch a lot of the old movies and tv shows from that era and everyone smoked. Smoking was glamorous.

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persiflage — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:10:25 GMT

Absolutely, when I was 5-6 I would go out to the car, get in the driver seat and smoke those things.

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occasionalrain — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:20:27 GMT

Candy cigarettes can still be bought; I remember Lucky Strikes and pink bubble gum cigars.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:47:02 GMT

@TenderMercieswrote:
Yes, and I remember the gum cigarettes, too. It was a cigarette shaped piece of gum with paper wrapped around it. They would put powdered sugar in the paper and if you blew into the cigarette, it would look like a puff of smoke would come out.

@TenderMercies. I had a job one summer working at the Philadelphia Chewing Gum Co, which made those bubble gum cigars. I had a lot of different summer jobs and this was the worse. Hot, unair-conditioned with sticky 10X sugar in the air that stiffened your clothes and hair, boring assembly line work. The bubble gum smell permeated everything.

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Desertdi — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:53:36 GMT

Yeah.........maybe that's what stunted my growth(!!!) Haven't put on an inch since the 8th grade.....................

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blackhole99 — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 03:08:30 GMT

I had the cavities to prove it. I would never have let my son eat that stuff and my mother didn't give it a second thought. In fact, my grandmother sold that junk in her grocery store. I loved the way the penny candy was displayed in the candy case.

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ValentinaBon — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 03:11:33 GMT

@TenderMercieswrote:
Yes, and I remember the gum cigarettes, too. It was a cigarette shaped piece of gum with paper wrapped around it. They would put powdered sugar in the paper and if you blew into the cigarette, it would look like a puff of smoke would come out.

HAHA! I sooo remember these @TenderMercies but had forgotten all about them. I loved them and loved making that powder puff out like smoke, haha! I guess I am not easy to brainwash because it never made me want to smoke for real...never have and never will. I grew up in the late 70's and 80's so these weren't just 50 and 60's candies!

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Desertdi — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 03:13:11 GMT

@blackhole99wrote:
I had the cavities to prove it. I would never have let my son eat that stuff and my mother didn't give it a second thought. In fact, my grandmother sold that junk in her grocery store. I loved the way the penny candy was displayed in the candy case.

@blackhole99 I actually pulled fillings out eating Tootsie Rolls. Needless to say my ma wasn't too happy with the dentist bill, and my visits to the candy store ended................

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Yahooey — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 03:27:01 GMT

Yes, loved them and couldn't wait until I can smoke for real. I was under 10 and would pick up a pack of Lucky Strikes and the paper for my dad. Fast forward, I learned about the harmful effects at school and nagged my dad to quit. He eventually did and cigarettes never touched my lips.

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Carmie — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:18:48 GMT

You can still buy these old fashioned candies on Amazon and in stores that specialize in penny candy.

i used to collect soda bottles from wherever someone threw them in my neighborhood and take them back to the store to collect the deposit money. $ .02 for a small bottle and $ .05 for a large one.

I ate candy and chewed gum everyday for years. I still have chocolate every day. I was fortunate that I didn’t get cavities. I still don’t get them. I guess I am just lucky. I certainly deserved to get them.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:25:26 GMT

@Carmie You have good genes.

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Carmie — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:35:46 GMT

@Kachina624wrote:
@Carmie You have good genes.

If I do, I don’t where I got them. Everyone else in my family has a fortune spent on dental bills. My dentist said my gums are super healthy. He said they are perfect and it’s rare to find guns as healthy as mine, especially so for my age. They are better than a 20 year olds.

Too bad the rest of me aged...no one sees inside of my mouth.

@SilleeMee has better teeth than I do. She never had a cavity. We are about the same age.

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shoekitty — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:36:02 GMT

Yes, buy them every year at Halloween for my grandkids. We like the bubble gum ones that smoke. We dont don't "smoke" them out of the house. I get a case of the candy smokes, a case of the bubble gum, some wax lips, wax teeth, mustaches and those nik l nips. I think they are called. Those wax "soda" bottles with a sugar drink inside. I am bad.

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shoekitty — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:41:03 GMT

I get them on amazon. The price goes up and down like ithe stock market...but around halloween I pay about 25 bucks for a case of 24. Idk if they sell them by the pack, i buy the case. We still have a few packs left of the candy smokes....bubble gum is gone. It is tough bubble gum though, lol!

the candy ciggerettes seem smaller than they were when I was a kid ( i am 70), the bubble gum smokes are actual cigarette size and have grape, cherry and an orange bubble gum. The candy ones dont have the red tip like in the "olden" days. But i heard they still have them somewhere.

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Kitlynn — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:47:56 GMT

I do remember those and always got the Pall Mall ones because that is what my Dad smoked. Also loved the bubble gum cigars that came in pink, green and yellow. Also the red peanut patties. I loved those!!

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Kachina624 — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 05:03:28 GMT

@Carmiewrote:
@Kachina624wrote:
@Carmie You have good genes.
If I do, I don’t where I got them. Everyone else in my family has a fortune spent on dental bills. My dentist said my gums are super healthy. He said they are perfect and it’s rare to find guns as healthy as mine, especially so for my age. They are better than a 20 year olds.

Too bad the rest of me aged...no one sees inside of my mouth.
@SilleeMee has better teeth than I do. She never had a cavity. We are about the same age.

@Carmie@. Its not fair. I've faithfully gone to the dentist every 6 months my whole life, have had fluoride treatments since they were invented, have spent a fortune on teeth and they're still awful. My sister is the same. It's got to be genes or minerals in your water. @SilleeMee was raised on Rocky Mountain spring water which is undoubtedly her secret.

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Nataliesgramma — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 10:58:11 GMT

Yep....I remember those.....I liked the bubble gum cigar the best..

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kelsey17 — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 11:47:25 GMT

Yes...i remember loving those little cigarettes~~......funny story......my parents used to buy them for us but also those bubble gum cigars...........one Easter my parents put a bubble gum cigar in each of our baskets.....the holiday was great.....we went to bed..............unknown to my parents...my brother at bedtime decided to eat his bubble gum cigar................we all woke the next morning...then he woke up and he had fallen asleep with the cigar in his mouth and when he got up the gum was stuck to his eyebrow....and surprising stuck fairly solidly......my parents had to get it off of him as he was young.....and it took his eyebrow with it!!! hahaha luckily it grew back fairly quickly.......not the greatest look for a few weeks!! ha.