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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:03 PM
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Who remembers candy cigarettes?







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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:06 PM
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1. I do.
They were very popular when I was a kid.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:07 PM
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2. And these:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:12 PM
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9. Haha!
Is that for real?
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 03:16 AM
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51. Yes, I used to buy them in Nogales when I was in highscool.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:25 PM
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16. I knew an eye-ear-nose-throat doctor
who kept a pack of those in his desk as a joke. :D
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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:07 PM
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3. Oh yeah!
If you could inhale a little of that powdered sugar, you could actually blow "smoke!"
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:08 PM
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4. I do too!
Unbelievable. :rofl:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:09 PM
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5. Yep
I liked em
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:10 PM
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6. Kings was my preferred brand
:rofl: :rofl:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:11 PM
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7. I used to get them a lot
I also remember buying cigarettes for my mom when I was about 8 - she'd send me into the store to buy a pack of Old Gold Filters for her. My dad smoked Viceroys. The people at the store never blinked an eye.

When I started smoking, cigarettes were 35 cents a pack. :wow:
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:24 PM
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12. I bought Tareyton one day
Edited on Tue Oct-02-07 03:24 PM by Rambis
for .05$ when I got home my dad said thanks and I cried because I wanted the candy ones. They even had the red candy tip to make them look like they were lit. Just plain wrong!
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:25 PM
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15. I remember getting cigs for my parents too
They also made me go to the vending machine.

I'm surprised I never had the desire to smoke myself as a kid. :shrug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:31 PM
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20. I remember my dad getting a carton of Luckys for, I think, $2.11
That was about 1964.

I remember getting packs for 35 cents when I was about 15. First carton I ever bought, in 1974, was $4. Minimum wage was $2.50. Do the math.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:40 PM
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23. My dad smoked Salem
it's funny, he stopped smoking when I was only like 9 or 10 but I still remember exactly what those packs looked like. Funnier (peculiar not haha)still, he died of lung cancer and yet seeing a pack of Salems makes me feel nostalgic.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:11 PM
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8. My dad would pretend to light them for my brothers and me.
We thought we were so cool. :rofl:
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:22 PM
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10. oh yeah, I remember three kinds
gum, "chocolate" (more like crayon wax), and the dried toothpaste minty ones.
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MysticalChicken Donating Member (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:24 PM
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11. I do
Edited on Tue Oct-02-07 03:24 PM by MysticalChicken
I think they discontinued them when I was about twelve or so. I remember eating a box of them at least once.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 04:23 PM
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27. you can order them on-line and get them in some novelty and specialty candy stores
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:24 PM
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13. remember?
you can still buy them in parts of Kentucky and Tennessee.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:30 PM
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19. I assumed that they were banned
I don't buy candy any more except for Halloween.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 09:29 AM
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52. I had assumed so too
until I saw them in a gas station one day. Then again, maybe they were Original Stock...
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 09:33 AM
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53. Also in some stores in Chicago
Not as good as I remembered
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:25 PM
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14. I do. They were fun! But...
If there were still readily available today, I wouldn't let my kid have them...

(signed Mean, nasty, ole mom)
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:27 PM
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17. Didn't there used to be a gum that came shredded up in a pouch like
chewing tobacco, as well? Funny stuff...
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:28 PM
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18. Big League Chew


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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:34 PM
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21. That was invented by Jim Bouton
Former Yankees/Pilots/Astros/Braves pitcher and author of "Ball Four" et al.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:25 PM
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35. Beat me to it...I love Jim Bouton
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Mugu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:42 PM
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25. That isn't what I was thinking about.
The bag of gum that I was thinking about was an actual cloth pouch with draw string.

Regards, Mugu
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 03:06 AM
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50. I remember something like that...
they were supposed to be gold nuggets. Don't think they were around very long, though.
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 11:39 AM
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56. Gold Mine Gum


I chewed that stuff a lot!
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 04:22 PM
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26. I'd forgotten about that - pretty bad tasting IIRC
However, I feel like there was another version also, with more of a Cowboy & Indian motif; maybe what mugu is referring to.

Pretty funny to think back on those kid versions of grown-up vices...
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:46 PM
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40. It was too sweet and didn't chew well
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Mugu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:39 PM
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22. I hadn't thought about the pouch of gum for years.
That seems like a lifetime ago. Now that I think about it, that has to be 45 years ago, so I guess it was a lifetime ago.

Regards, Mugu
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 03:42 PM
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24. Yeah, the candy was for shit, but we all...
got them because they were cool and pissed off parents and teachers.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 04:26 PM
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28. yah!
They sold them at a store I walked by to get to my elementary school, I shopped for candy there every day :headbang: I never got these much though, they were even worse than bazooka joe gum.
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caty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 04:27 PM
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29. A little store
a few blocks away sells them. You can order them on the internet too. Someone must still want them or there wouldn't be a reason to keep making them.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 04:38 PM
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30. Me.
My mom would never buy me any. :cry:
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 06:11 PM
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31. Sure do!
I used to get them from a little candy store around the corner from my school circa 1979. :9
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:11 PM
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32. Me! Kings were my brand
Here's a link to some old-time candy:

http://candyyouateasakid.com/
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:14 PM
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33. I used to get Chocolate Cigarettes.
Made by Fanny Farmer, they came in a snazzy plastic case. :9
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:26 PM
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36. Also bubblegum cigars
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:42 PM
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38. oh yeah, forgot about those
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skyblue Donating Member (724 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:21 PM
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34. yeah but I think there were chocolate ones. Those were better.
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:41 PM
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37. I remember Popeye cigarettes,
but not ones whose package actually resembled cigarette packages. That is wrong on so many levels. :)
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cloudbase Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:44 PM
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39. I was going through a pack a day
when I was six years old.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:47 PM
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41. They still sell'em near my old hometown
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NaturalHigh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 09:49 PM
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48. Really?
I figured those had been banned. I had them a few times when I was younger.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 09:51 PM
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49. Nope, all of those brands in the OP's pics are the ones they sell to
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:48 PM
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42. I loved them
puff~puff
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:52 PM
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43. yup
Do they not make them anymore?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:53 PM
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44. even better were the bubblegum ones that you could blow a puff of powdered sugar out of
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:54 PM
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45. They still sell them.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:55 PM
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46. Yes! The gum ones with powder around it so when you blew it looked like smoke
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 09:46 PM
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47. They were always broken.
Real cigarettes weren't ever broken so I switched to them instead.
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 09:34 AM
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54. I do!
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 09:35 AM
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55. Still being made, but they're called just "candy sticks" now...
Edited on Wed Oct-03-07 09:36 AM by bob_weaver
Here's a page about them:

http://cardhouse.com/a/candy/candy.htm
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