Friday, December 03, 2004

Candy-Flavored Cigarettes

Sold at gas stations and smoke shops, packs of candy-flavored cigarettes have set anti-tobacco advocates on fire. It has been charged that teens are targeted.

Flavored Camels
Pineapple/Coconut and Citrus Flavored

Flavored Kools
Mocha Flavored

You make the call.

As a side note, it seems the Surgeon General's Warning on the cigarette package has become essentially meaningless, similar to the 'Do Not Remove' tag on a mattress. Wouldn't you agree?

And, it also needs to be mentioned that within the past three weeks, one boy inhaled gasoline fumes and then allegedly killed his grandmother. In another instance, a woman was inhaling propane and blew up her home. Oddly, in at least these two cases, the smoking of cigarettes would appear to be a step up on the ladder of respiratory health. Interestingly, as the laws currently stand, it's generally illegal to smoke marijuana and it's becoming generally illegal to smoke tobacco. All the while, Americans are free to inhale propane and gasoline fumes with abandon.

I guess this all makes sense.

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