Anybody else remember these -- the REAL Gateway Drug?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Scratch almost ANY conservative and I'd bet they'd tell you that the Nanny State is responsible for
kids not being able to "have fun" with these any more.
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They WERE the shit... says someone who eventually kicked a 3-pack-a-day habit of REAL cigarettes.
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[rurallib]

1. Well, the candy variety anyway

lord knows with both parents and both older brothers smoking I always had a pack of candy smokes with me.

[LynneSin]

2. Didn't know that Stephen Colbert was the face of "Just Like Dad" bubble gum ciggies

sure looks like him.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. I don't remember ANY flavors...

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...other than that generic strange powder-dusted pink bubblegum flavor that was not
as good as Bazooka gum, but OK.
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My trick? Taking a puff and shouting, "SMOKE RING" and P-TOOOOing a wet, goobery
Cheerio at my little brother.
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If it stuck to his forehead, it was fall-down-laughing-while-trying-not-to-wet-yourself GOOD!!!
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[woo me with science]

4. I liked the chocolate ones. nt

[Capn Sunshine]

5. Oh Yeah. The KIND

[MilesColtrane]

6. The turning point had to be this 1967 PSA, "Like Father, Like Son".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzDLzqQ-A0

I too remember chocolate and candy cigarettes.

People really started to reconsider their wisdom after this short began airing.

The hipster soundtrack in 5/4 time was pretty badass too.