A new study says that if you "smoked" candy cigarettes as a child, you're more likely to smoke real cigarettes as an adult. As an adult smoker who never touched the candy version, I say bullsh*t.
The study shows 22% of smokers surveyed "used" the candy version as kids while a mere 14% of non-smokers claimed to be heavily into the sugar sticks.
So of the approximately 35% of the kiddie population who actually bought those horrid approximations of actual candy (and we won't even try to speculate on the whys of that), two-thirds are more likely to smoke.
And this they call conclusive. The suggestion that sucking a piece of candy that more closely resembles a pipe cleaner than a cigarette is some sort of gateway drug is so ridiculous that it really doesn't deserve so much as this response on this obscure blog.
Apparently, it didn't occur to the study leaders that kids who seem more likely to buy these vile "treats" are exposed to smoking often in their own homes. And of course that would have nothing to do with becoming a smoker.
2 comments:
I've never smoked, but I did eat the candy cigarettes as a kid.
See? And I smoke like a chimney and I hated candy cigarettes as a kid.
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