st. paul

Some people are just to ridiculous! meanwhile,out in the street real crime was taking place but no one cared to stop it because they were all too concerened about the candy.

So much for the land of the free. Freedom is not just another word. We take so much for granted & it is slowly being taken from us. This is just a "TINY" example. No I do not approve of teaching children to smoke. We grew up with candy cigarettes-it's a choice we all make whether or not to smoke.

"We had no idea." So owners of a small business don't bother watching TV news or reading the newspaper? WHen this city statute was passed, it was in the newspaper, on TV news, etc. I don't believe the business didn't know. They just didn't want to lose their top seller, so they took their chances. I think the law is dumb, of course, but to flagrantly ignore it is dumber.

Only the fear-driven minds of conservatives would want to end a child's make-believe or adulat nostalgia. Such make-believe can help the child deal constructively with the emotional attractions of smoking, and is important to the emotional maturation of the child. It would be interesting to see a study of how many children that "used" candy cigarettes do not smoke today. I fall into that category myself, and I suspect that candy cigarettes cannot be linked to smoking scientifically. I belive that they actually make it easier for children to reject the behaviour in the end, since it allows the experience of the action without the addiction. It is only when such actions are demonized by ignorant authority figures, rather than seen as opportuanities for dialoque, that innocent behaviour becomes obsession.

So...eating candy cigarettes and cigar-shaped gum causes an increase in teenage smokers. A study on this confirms this, right? Hmmmmmmmmmmm....then what do semi-realistic video games of "shoot to kill" like "Call of Duty Black Ops" cause teenagers to do???? Where is the study on this?? I would think that in the wake of things like Newtown, that this just might be a cause for concern?? I mean...isn't getting hit with a bullet more dangerous to my health than drinking a can of pop (soda)?

I'm usually critical of poorly-written headlines, but I applaud this one!

I loved those cigarettes because it was all about the sugar and not that I was copying my 2 pack a day smoking parents, who lived into their 90's! Get a grip world, I never started smoking and I gave up the sugar, except for Valentine's Day when you can get the next best thing, Candy Hearts!

Spencer Gifts and other novelty shops sell Penis shaped Pasta, candy and drinking straws, I can hardly wait till the city hears about this! This could lead to a generation of porn stars.

Welcome to the United States of Asinine.

This is ridiculous... Have they forgotten the reason why kids were pretending to puff on the candy cigs??... They were trying to act grown up.. they were wanting to be older... we all did it... wished we were a few years older so we could do things on our own... It had nothing to do with wanting to be a smoker. Just wanting independence... If children seeing smokers is a bad thing... then ban the sale of cigarettes... don't limit the "dreams" of children.