who remembers these?

ISTR there was a bit of a thing for putting sweets in cigarette style packs.

I only remember the sweet cigarettes, white candy with red ends. And there were ones in rice paper over chocolate.

Besides those, I also recall sticks of candied ginger packed in a flip-top pack.

In hindsight it's fairly outrageous!

I'd like to blame my 25 years as a pipe smoker on liquorice pipes (with red sprinkles on the end)

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.

was yummy

totly

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.

The tobacco companies allowed the use of their brand names for some of them, so they may not have shared that opinion.

As somebody once said, half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Unfortunately, nobody can tell me which half.

But it makes a better sound bite that way.

the half they spent on me

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.

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.

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.

Liquorice pipes!!!!!!!!!!!

Bluebottle had liquorice dog-ends in his Junior Smoker's Kit.