Children's cigarette-style chewing gum on sale!

Family, Education, Health and Pets
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Mais oui:

http://www.bravo.ch/topic6888.html

42
So, we learn, there are campaigns against adults smoking...so what? The subject here is not that, the subject is whether these chewing gum cigs should be sold or not. No argument here so far has persuaded me that they should & an interesting question would be this; would you allow your kids (or if you had kids) them?

I'm sure most parents wouldn't.

43
So who is buying these sweets then?

Probably the kiddies on their way to school, with their pocket money and most parents won't even know about it anyway so.

44
The packaged items are individually wrapped, no?

Gum typically is (unless it is candy coated), isn't it?

So that fancy "authentic looking" bit is paper, isn't it?

Unless the argument is that the things will encourage kids to EAT tobacco, I find it rather silly actually.

There are lollipops in the US (I'm sure elsewhere also) that are formed on a base and generally look like pacifiers. Would you argue that such candies encourage youths to suck on pacifiers their whole lives?

45
It is, just like a cigarette...but um, oh forget it

46

It's ok, I do understand the underlying sentiment.

On the other hand, the big moment of temptation regarding smoking for me had nothing to do with cigarette style candies but rather, when I came to the realization when I began working that the smokers got breaks more often than I did.

Alas, asthma does not lend itself well to developing a smoking habit, one inhale and I nearly coughed up my guts along with a lung or two... I seriously do not understand how anyone gets past that first inhale.

47
Just when I was about to counter with 'rolling your own tobacco' but you saved me....

My moment of temptation came when a friend persuaded me & said 'it's cool' so I gave in (did I subconciously have those little candies in the back of my head?)... at 14, my father smelt it & that was it, since then I've always been a non-smoker.

48
Well, I loved them as a kid and I do smoke

But this might also be related to my parents who are (and since I remember always have been) smokers too

49
let me see... hmm... my mom breastfed me as an infant for a whole year... Aha! ... that's why I am a breast man!

50
Yes, I have three kids. And one thing it's taught me is that if you want them to respect your advice then it pays to keep a sense of proportion and to focus on things that will really make a difference.