{"id":29118,"date":"2010-12-11T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=29118"},"modified":"2013-11-23T03:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:50:17","slug":"tobacco-themed-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/11\/tobacco-themed-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco-Themed Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I stopped in the candy store on State St. in Madison, WI only to discover a product that I remember consuming as a kid, but thought had been banned in the U.S. years ago: tobacco-themed candy.<\/p>\n

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According to wikipedia<\/a>, candy cigarettes (I’m not sure about the other products) are banned in Finland,\u00a0Norway,\u00a0Ireland,\u00a0Turkey, and\u00a0Saudi Arabia; Canada has banned packaging that resembles real cigarettes. \u00a0A U.S. ban was proposed in 1970 and again in 1991, but it failed to pass in both instances.<\/p>\n

I do remember feeling cool, as a kid, when I pretended to smoke them.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I stopped in the candy store on State St. in Madison, WI only to discover a product that I remember consuming as a kid, but thought had been banned in the U.S. years ago: tobacco-themed candy. According to wikipedia, candy cigarettes (I’m not sure about the other products) are banned in Finland,\u00a0Norway,\u00a0Ireland,\u00a0Turkey, and\u00a0Saudi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,2056,403,23703,1770,2026,1817,1791,1980,1807,3920,1890],"class_list":["post-29118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-crimelaw","tag-deviance","tag-marketing","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-ireland","tag-nation-norway","tag-nation-saudi-arabia","tag-nation-turkey","tag-nation-united-states","tag-smokingtobacco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29118"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59397,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118\/revisions\/59397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}