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1 year ago
who remembers these?
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1 year ago
ISTR there was a bit of a thing for putting sweets in cigarette style packs.
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1 year ago
I only remember the sweet cigarettes, white candy with red ends. And there were ones in rice paper over chocolate.
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1 year ago
Besides those, I also recall sticks of candied ginger packed in a flip-top pack.
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1 year ago
In hindsight it's fairly outrageous!
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1 year ago
I'd like to blame my 25 years as a pipe smoker on liquorice pipes (with red sprinkles on the end)
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1 year ago
I remember those, there were two versions:
One was were white casndy sticks with a bit of red food dabbed at one end
and the other was chocolate sticks with a paper wrapper that could slide off as you ate the chocolate.
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1 year ago
was yummy
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1 year ago
totly
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1 year ago
Only if you think cigarettes are Spawn of the Devil.
And if you think children should be protected from the vicissitudes of life until they suddenly, aged 16 or 18, are released into a world of work, alcohol, sex, knives, glue, gambling...
Better to allow them to learn about life gradually.
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1 year ago
The tobacco companies allowed the use of their brand names for some of them, so they may not have shared that opinion.
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1 year ago
As somebody once said, half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Unfortunately, nobody can tell me which half.
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1 year ago
But it makes a better sound bite that way.
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1 year ago
the half they spent on me
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1 year ago
I'm not sure sweet cigarettes and real cigarettes have much in common. One possibility is so kids can act like their parents. It happens with girls putting on their mums make-up and shoes and then there are other role models for boys too, and most start with their dad.
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1 year ago
I think it's very clear otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Its down to normalising things, same with most things. In victorian times even an ankle being shown was outrageous See a girl in a mini skirt if she's it's noticable but in the 1960s less so.
Also think of some of the bands/singers etc on TV if they aren't shown they don't make money. Works in politics too.
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1 year ago
A good idea for keeping such things in a pocket or a handbag, with less risk of melting due to body heat in a pocket or being soiled or damaged in a bag by contact with other things.
I vaguely remember the product or something like it.
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1 year ago
Liquorice pipes!!!!!!!!!!!
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1 year ago
Bluebottle had liquorice dog-ends in his Junior Smoker's Kit.