candy cigarettes - a brief look back at the tobacco industry and kids

Candy ‘Tobacco’ Products

Creating future nicotine addicts with candy cigarettes.A very successful marketing campaign.

A brief look at candy cigarette packaging

This is called grooming.

“Just Like Dad! Makes you look cool.”

Doctor’s Choice, Sweet and Mild

Makes you look healthy? Are you kidding me?

Chocolate Cigarettes

Yes, even Hershey’s

Licorice Cigarettes and Pipes

 ”I ams what I ams, and that's all that I ams. I'm strong to the finish, cause I eats me

spinach, I'm Popeye the Sailorman.”

Popeye was also a nicotine addict.

Candy Cigarettes

Death Knell is more like it.

Round up the Bucky Strikes for Victory

Victory for the tobacco companies that is.

Baby Knows Best?

These are extra hard to stomach.

Tobacco companies know that if you create young addicts, you are guaranteed future life-time customers.

You could even practice paying for cigarettes.

Customers for life. And death.

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death.

Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030.

Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually (i.e., more than 440,000 deaths per year in the U.S. and an estimated 49,000 of these smoking-related deaths are the result of second-hand smoke exposure).

On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than non-smokers.

The tobacco industry spent $8.37 billion total in advertising in 2011

That is almost $23 million spent every day in 2011

Stats From Center for Disease Control

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