You know what? I think I'll go tell him exactly that! Use the stupid for good. Not only because kids should have to use their own initiative to get addicted to drugs, but it's also too much plastic and sugar.
That's a gateway drug. They start with one of those after school and the next thing you know they're sniffing pixie sticks off the stomach of a janitor and selling grandma's urn for a single Laffy Taffy.
I only ever see them for sale in places that sell old fashioned candy, I think their decline has to do with the fact they just don't taste very good (in addition to the changing cultural opinions about cigarettes, but I bet they've declined even in places where a large percentage of adults still smoke).
They're still sold here in Kansas as both. They also sell them as "candy sticks" in little packets with popular characters on it so everyone can talk about how they used to look like malboros.
Just like mommy! See, because one of the quickest ways to get treatment for heroin addiction is to get pregnant. I wonder if it's a 2 digit percentage of births nationwide at this point.
36 Comments
SPRUNT@lemmy.world · 125 pts · 161d
Don't let RFK Jr. see these or he'll have them banned for encouraging vaccinations.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 161d
You know what? I think I'll go tell him exactly that! Use the stupid for good. Not only because kids should have to use their own initiative to get addicted to drugs, but it's also too much plastic and sugar.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 160d
Can we start a conspiracy theory that Microplastics cause Autism?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 160d
no, it's wearing jeans in a suana.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 160d
For the current administration you want to say it causes gayness ! They will ban plastic like it was the worst.
tpihkal@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 161d
Wow, that completely explains this heroin addiction.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 161d
It tracks.
loki518@feddit.org · 1 pts · 161d
baseball, huh
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d
Its starts with sherbet powder, by high school they're snorting cocaine off the toilet seats...
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 39 pts · 161d
INJECT THE BLUE RASPBERRY JUICE DIRECTLY INTO MY VEEEEEEEIIIIIIINSSSSS!
jqubed@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 161d
Where else would it go? The veins are blue!
Lag@piefed.world · 7 pts · 161d
The square hole.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 37 pts · 161d
That's a gateway drug. They start with one of those after school and the next thing you know they're sniffing pixie sticks off the stomach of a janitor and selling grandma's urn for a single Laffy Taffy.
probablymissing@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 161d
"sweet addiction"
holy shit they aren't even trying
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d
Real Cheese™
Grimy@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 161d
It's insane that we ban kinder eggs but don't ban "baby's first heroin needle". This has to stop.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 160d
The amount of plastic for just a small tube of sweet paste..
null@lemmy.org · 21 pts · 161d
Since candy cigarettes are illigal they just made the cigarettes candy flavored.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 161d
Literally called "Sweet Addiction". LOL WTF.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 161d
Illegal where? I have to go to a novelty candy store in my area, because it's the only place I can think of that sells them....but it's legal here.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 161d
It's not illegal here, but sufficiently heavily discouraged and socially frowned upon that indeed, you have to look hard to find em.
Instead, we let 11 year olds order vapes from china now.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
Ha ha ha, yeah. Not like when I was a kid in the 80s, and everybody smoked. Walls were just brown.
Just....all walls.
So glad that as generations went on, smoking habits have seemed to fall off a cliff.
Wait, what?
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 161d
This narrative has always confused me because they sit on the shelf at my Kroger
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 160d
I'm not sure it's legal to call them candy cigarettes though - I've always seen them called something else. Yup, it's illegal to call them cigarettes in the US, and they vary in legality elsewhere.
I only ever see them for sale in places that sell old fashioned candy, I think their decline has to do with the fact they just don't taste very good (in addition to the changing cultural opinions about cigarettes, but I bet they've declined even in places where a large percentage of adults still smoke).
GreenDust@lemmings.world · 0 pts · 161d
Because they're illegal to sell elsewhere 🤯
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 161d
I can go to my Kroger and buy them right now though
watermelonpaloma@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 160d
I bought a pack of candy cigarettes the last time I visited the US, just a couple years ago. I was so surprised that they are still being made.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 160d
no longer sold as "candy".
sold as a "novelty item".
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 160d
They're still sold here in Kansas as both. They also sell them as "candy sticks" in little packets with popular characters on it so everyone can talk about how they used to look like malboros.
watermelonpaloma@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 147d
Well, I found that 'novelty item' in the candy section of the corner shop.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 160d
But you can buy bags of white candy powder.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 160d
Mystery boxes teach them to gamble
Tapirs_Are_AI_Slop@lemmy.org · 6 pts · 161d
AWTM_James@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 161d
These look like they use the inferior Luer slip needles
Tapirs_Are_AI_Slop@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 161d
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Oh those suck
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d
Whereas vapes just fully supplant the habit and are a different kind of lung disease
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
Just like mommy! See, because one of the quickest ways to get treatment for heroin addiction is to get pregnant. I wonder if it's a 2 digit percentage of births nationwide at this point.