st. paul

I blame video games.

Our world headed in wrong direction! We have issues like identity theft, crazies with guns shooting at pizza delivery drivers or wondering in schools killing innocent kids, yet this country will waste tax dollars policing a store because it sells candy shaped like cigarettes or cigars? Time to focus on SIGNIFICANT crimes, huh?

What a bunch of crap. For my 65th birthday my daughter bought a bunch of the candies I had enjoyed back when I was a kid, it was a great thing to get to shake some old memories and put a smile on my face. These type of candy cigs were in that and also bubblegum cigars If I had known there was a place to buy them I would have gone a bought them myself and hand them out to my friends from way back then probably at our next class reunion. By the way I do not smoke, quit 25 years ago.

Next time somebody asks why you don't vote, CASE-IN-POINT!

real cigarettes - perhaps the only product on the market that if used properly/according to directions can actually kill the user

candy cigarettes - might send you to the dentist for a cavity fill or two

of course the killer real cigarettes will never be illegal. They bring in way too much tax money for those money hungry politicians. And of course cigarettes kill many, many more people annually than all firearms do. Where's the outrage?

As I'm reading the comments, on the right-hand side of the screen I see the list of 'most-read stories', one of which is "More meth labs showing up in cities, suburbs" -- and I wonder ... really, doesn't the city have just a little more to worry about than candy cigarettes being sold? Wouldn't it be nice if that were the biggest issue we had?

I moved to St. Paul a year and a half ago, so don't give me that shoulda, coulda, woulda argument back to 2009. This law is a waste of time. We can debate this kind of issue once we have solved greater problems. Until then, tax dollars shouldn't be used for such silliness.

Really? Prove it to me that my kids would've taken up smoking if these hadn't been banned! I'm 50 years old, my parents smoked, and I had these candies growing up. I have never smoked a real cigarette in my life. Kids that take up smoking aren't doing it because their pretending with candy!!

So, playing violent video games for years has no impact on whether a child will grow up to have violent tendencies. Yet "smoking" a candy cigarette, something most kids would get bored with after doing it a couple of times, creates urges which will doom them to a lifetime of tobacco addiction? How does that make sense?

I played with toy cap-guns, rifles, knives and other objects of mayhem as a youngster. My parents didn’t have to tell me the the real things were dangerous, I seemed to know that instinctively. Never had the urge to get a real gun, I still have the old BB gun and the only knives I have are of the kitchen variety. I took up smoking as a teen-ager because just about every kid in school and their parents were smoking. I wonder if the person who complained has seen any of the video games their kid is playing or monitoring who they’re contacting on line or texting.