Giving Candy Cigs to Children
- November 2nd, 2008 5:40 pm
I live in an uptight suburban neighborhood. The sort where it was likely that on Halloween many of them were giving out apples, dental floss, or pamphlets on cleaning your bedroom . I remember how badly it sucked as a child on Halloween to pour out your Halloween booty and discover that instead of a massive candy bar, someone had given you a toothbrush or something equally as dismal.
With that in mind, this Halloween I decided to give out candy cigarettes. It was sort of an inside joke I had with myself. Giving “cigarettes” to children, an ‘oh how funny that will be’ sort of thing. I knew some parents would likely get all snippety and snappity, but I thought for the most part they might either laugh at the joke of giving a child candy cigarettes or get all nostalgic about them.
However, I was ready for the uptight parents. I’ve noticed that there seems to be a person who can not take a joke in almost every crowd. So I was prepared with Snickers for those that couldn’t behave.
Or at least I was prepared with Snickers. Until Adam decided to eat them all.
Almost every child that came up to our door received a pack of candy cigarettes. Only one parent took the time to track my house down, bring them back, and tell me how ridiculous it was to give candy cigarettes to a child. That I should know better. Probably, I should.
I expected the backlash, almost welcoming it; so it sort of made the joke funnier than it was to begin with.
Really, she’s just lucky I didn’t give her child these:
There’s always next year.
Allie enjoys candy cigarettes. While she was having one the other day, I white trashed her hair up real good put a mini skirt and white camisole on her. Behold the uber trash:
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Geez, people, it’s candy. Lighten up. I can’t believe someone came back and lectured you! I LOVE candy cigarettes and my kids got some this year, but instead of lecturing the person giving them out, I stole ‘em.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
Aahaha! That’s just *wrong* on SOOOO many levels. However, I giggled. Don’t tell anyone I giggled, okay?
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
One of my kids got some candy cigs, and I’m not sure where they are from. I want to go thank the person for having a sense of humor.
the only place we got candy this year was at my work (we had an hour of cubicle-to-cubicle trick or treating) and at a church carnival.
Go figure.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Allie makes trashy look adorable. I love it!
I’m totally looking for penis candy to stick in Christmas stockings this year. I’m sure they are Santa approved!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
This made me laugh out loud…and I’m a non-smoker with a family member fighting lung cancer. Trust me, he’d think it’s hilarious too. People need to lighten up and trust that they are doing a good enough job parenting their kids. Societal taboo’s will always be around, poke fun and educate, because you can’t keep kids in a bubble forever.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
Yeah, I must admit that if you gave my kids candy cigarettes I’d be pissed. As in royally. So, I’m glad that I 1)don’t have kids, and 2) don’t live in your neighborhood.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
That is so awesome. I wish my son would have gotten some of those this year!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
That is too cool – you are the coolest!!!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
Penis candy is a MUST for every child’s Halloween basket!!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
I didn’t even know you could still GET candy cigarettes! I don’t smoke, so candy ones definitely don’t bother me, since I probably went through a pack a week when I was a kid. lmao. But, I haven’t seen candy cigs in years – people keep giving my son “candy sticks” which are basically candy cigs without the orange dye at the end and in superhero packaging. lol
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:24 pm
I LOVED those as a kid. And I distinctly remember always being happy when I got them at Halloween–it was rare, but it happened and I LOVED it.
Allie looks adorable as white trash–too cute!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
How about a big chocolate bong next year?
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Teehee! I bet that was a sight to see. Allie all white trashed up! I need to know what you said in response to the one mother who brought the candy cigs back. I NEED to know!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:44 pm
I think that’s hilarious! You should’ve had Allie hand them out with a fake cig in her mouth and a glass of scotch (apple juice) in her hand.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
There is one in every crowd. I’m convinced they have so little joy in their life they can’t stand to see anyone else have ANY fun.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
I’m telling you, next year I’m giving out rubbers and fish hooks. What a wet blanket your neighbor is!
I might be wrong, but I don’t think candy cigarettes were ever cited as a gateway drug to huffing glue or mainlining horse tranq into one’s eyeball.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
My mother in law used to give the boys candy cigarettes all the time, we asked her to stop. That being said, I can’t stand the woman, and our relationship probably had more to do with that than anything.
I would have thought it hilarious had someone given those out for halloween, instead of the Ricola cough drops they got. (???)
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:16 pm
LOL… do you work for RJ Reynolds?
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
So you’re THAT mom, hey?
That’s ok. THOSE moms are usually the most fun.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
I thought I was the only person in the world that took pleasure in doing crap like this. My admiration for you has been taken to a whole new level.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
Times have changed…back when we were kids no one would have thought twice about giving out Candy Cigs… I used to eat the ones in the little red pack and I think they might have even had Popeye on the front. I remember eating them in the car thinking I was so cool just like my mom only she was smoking for real and looking back on it she didn’t even roll down the window ’cause it was cold outside and I might catch a cold… oh the good old days!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
I think you should find the mom who gave you back the cigarettes and give her the penis candy instead.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
That is the funniest picture ever!
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
I didn’t know they still sold those! Wow, the memories. We had the parents that spazzed over them so we had to sneak them. You’d think they were the real thing, the way we acted.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
Wow. I don’t even know what to say.
Except…I am surprised you did this.
But its not like I know you all that well or anything.
So um, just WOW.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
We had a white trash new year’s theme party last year, and one of my sisters bought a bunch of the candy cigs. We have pictures of a few of the younger boys in the family “smoking”.
I wish someone in our neighborhood gave them out.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
HAHA!!! That is a hoot!
Those are definitely nostalgic for me. I remember when my friend and I used to buy them for 10 cents.
Did I just age myself a bit there?
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
You’re one classy, classy chick.
And I’m glad you know me.
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
Hahaha…
My daughter came home with some candy cigs…and she promptly handed them over to daddy with a “here, maybe you should have these and they’ll help you quit smoking the ones that cause cancer” hahaha i couldn’t do anything but sit there and laugh
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
I used to love candy cigarettes…and I haven’t seen them in forever! I would totally have thought that was cool if I’d found them in my child’s loot. Some people have no sense of humor. In fact, I’m posting about a Halloween uptightness myself tomorrow, albeit on a slightly different subject…
That penis candy is a riot. That would have shocked me. lol
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November 2nd, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
The Penis candy would have have been hilarious. Just hilarious. What would have been funny would have been being there when the uptight Mommy tried to explain that one to her kids.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 12:31 am
I’m one of those uptight people not seeing the humor in this. But hey, maybe losing your Mom, your sister and your really good friend to lung cancer will do that to you. Oh yeah, and worrying you’re going to die from it too because even though you’ve never smoked you were exposed to second-hand smoke all those years. Apparently it has to me.
The penis candy I would have been amused by.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 2:22 am
Man, I used to love those…where’d you get ‘em?
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 8:44 am
I myself loved to eat them as a kid, but with all the “Truth” advertisements out there trying to discourage kids to smoke, I probably would not have handed them out at Halloween. It is like teaching them that cigarettes are fun and cool.
I wouldn’t have come back to your house and handed them back to you with a negative comment, but I wouldn’t have let the kiddos have them.
Hubby and I would have snuck around and ate them along with many other candy items they might have in there bags. Ha-ha!!!!
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 9:38 am
I would have tracked you down to find out where you got such realistic looking boxes and asked for more!
We used to get loaves of bread from one neighbor..it was sad
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:02 am
Some of you people are real killjoys.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:10 am
I’m pretty uptight about smoking. I’d almost rather you gave my kids candy hypodermic needles.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:20 am
This was hilariously deviant! I love it! A sense of humor is an important life skill
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:31 am
Damn! IF that is bad…what is next?
No washable tattoos. That might have been better…
“Hey! That lady up there is giving out smokes and free tats!”
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:39 am
“I white trashed her hair up real good put a mini skirt and white camisole on her.”
You’re such a good mom. I hope one day Allie starts to tell this story like it’s normal and her friend go, “Wait, what?!” and then she suddenly realizes it’s not normal for moms to dress their kids up as white trash.
But it IS very, very funny.
(And having read through the comments, sorry so many people are giving you a hard time about the candy ciggarettes. First of all, it sucks when you get a different reaction to a pos than you expected and secondly, they are made of CANDY. You eat them, not smoke them. The only reason a parent should be upset is if they aren’t responsible enough to explain the difference to their children and to emphasis the danger of smoking. I probably just lit a fire under some asses with that comment, but HEY, what do I know? I’m not even a mom, I’m a 21 year old college student who lives to piss people off with snarky comments.)
<3
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:40 am
PS. The blog is Shamelessly Sassy, not I Play By the Rulebook.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Dude that was laugh out loud funny.. I wish we would have gotten candy cigs.. classic..
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 11:19 am
I think it’s hysterical. I am a smoker (who is slowly quitting) and I would have died had my (imaginary, at this point) kids brought them home. ha ha ha ha.
And did you know that I had never even HAD a candy cigarette until this Halloween?
The shame, I know.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 12:41 pm
HAHAHAHAH!!!! I loved candy cigarettes when I was a kid. You could puff on them and a little puff of sugar would come out. You crack me up!!!!
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
LMAO! I just found your blog and I love it!
But, I think it’s disgusting that you gave out candy cigarettes! I just gave out real ones.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
I love Candy Cigs…..I love them and those sticks they have in the dip N Stick candy. LOL
What is the big deal? Did that parent not eat those as a kid? Whatever. LOL
BTW, Allie is super cute trash….lol
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
As if there weren’t a billion worse things that can and DO happen on Halloween than peopel giving Candy Cigs. Please. We had someone hand out religious tracts-and while I was appalled and disgusted, I certainly did not bother tracking them down and complaining. And I personally think the candy cigs are great, but then I am apparantly white trash as well, ha ha.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
I happen to think it was a GREAT idea. And, you shoulda had Big League Chew as a back up candy
More tobacco in a different form.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
What is up with comment love? That is four posts ago.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
i’m sorry…i can’t get past the fact that she tracked you down. hahahah.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
I loved the penis candy!
Thanks for bringing back the cig candy memories.
I enjoyed the article on eSnubbing. For those that do it just to be a snob, FOR SHAME!
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
too bad there are a few commenters who have no sense of humor. my grandfather died this year from lung cancer as he had smoked his whole life.
and i STILL think this is freaking hilarious. as it is CANDY.
not like you passed out the marlboro lights….
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
I can’t say I’d be thrilled if my kid got them, but they did get these Flintstone “candy sticks” that were damned close to looking like candy cigarettes. And know what my kids did with them? Pretended to light up. We dont’ even smoke. The candy didn’t say they were cigarettes. But they could figure it out.
Face it, if it isn’t a candy cigarette, it’ll be a pencil. Or a straw, or something else. Kids like to pretend.
And, if that mom was pissed, I can only imagine what she’d do if you gave her kid a Reeses PB cup if he was a peanut-allergy person. She’d go all postal on your ass!!!
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
I remember those! I used to love them even though they tasted kind of… meh. I used to get the Popeye ones. (I *know*. I didn’t know popeye was a smoker either.) They looked like dry toothpaste with a little red blob on the end.
They had no effect on me. I don’t smo… Oh. Wait. I do.
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 11:49 pm
Oh, I am so stealing this idea for next year. It’ll be a big hit on my very Mormon street where the lady a few houses down gives out Shasta Non-Caffeinated Sodas every year.
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November 4th, 2008 @ 2:49 am
Dude, it’s Halloween, lighten up!
I’d probably have lectured my kids about not smoking, but still have let them eat them. And that’s only because I have a major aversion to smoking, to the point that I’m pretty sure I need counseling. lol
Now, stop Britney-ing up that baby!
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November 5th, 2008 @ 3:51 am
Though I don’t smoke, and never have, I do remember smoking candy cigarettes as a child. So clearly they weren’t addictive nor did they implant the desire to move up from bubble gum to tobacco for me. The alternative is hilarious
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November 5th, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
I didn’t even know they still made candy cigarettes. Those soooo take me back! How cool it was to smoke those. hahahahahahaha
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November 5th, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
ok, now that’s pretty funny.
Funny thing is, it probably be pretty acceptable in my neighborhood.
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