Before the powers-that-be started clamping down on it, candy cigarettes used to be one of the more fun things a kid could buy at a convenience stores. When I was a kid, I'd always gravitate immediately towards the candy cigarettes. And the marketers were pretty blatant about the fact they were candy cigarettes. You would take one tip into your mouth, blow on it, and "smoke" would come out. It was pretty cool.
Even when I was a kid, though, the marketers made it pretty damn sure to emphasis the "candy" part before the "cigarette". Not so much internationally, though, where they when to far as to mimic the packaging precisely — as noted by these "Acmel" candies. Personally speaking, I wonder which country allows tar in their candy.
In any sense, I thought I'd forward you on over to this gallery of international candy cigarette brands. Maybe it will provoke you to have pretend cancer.
0 comments:
Post a Comment