Today I was thinking.
Do they still sell candy cigarettes? I swear I saw some on my trip to San Francisco last Fall.
It’s ok with me, that Big Tobacco has to pay money for anti-smoking propaganda - err, anti-smoking ads, that is. I mean, after all, I am Californian and we all know that Philip Morris is the embodiment of all that is evil. You simply can’t claim residence here until you thoroughly believe that. Think I’m kidding? Go ahead, light one up and see the looks you get. We prefer that you smoke marijuana, thank you very much.*
So, do the candy makers have to pay billions of dollars toward campaigns to keep kids from picking up the smoking habit? Because, well, it just seems to me that making actual cigarette-like products and selling them to children is WAY more enticing to would-be children smokers than, say, a penis-faced camel.
*Actually - I can’t stand anything pot-smoking related. I find it stupid and annoying. But I just think it’s hilarious that we (the voters) will go to hell and back to legalize marijuana here, meanwhile going to equally great lengths to outlaw cigarette smoking.
