For starters, they taste nothing like each other.

Actually, that’s pretty much it.

Because Silence is Golden among those with the Gold.

As an adult you get to indulge without kidding yourself, which is pleasurable.

As for kids, they just can’t see smoking as the thing to do wen they see those pictures.

Though some teenagers are immune and there always will be those. 

I especially like the way that al the cigarette displays are whited out and hidden. 

I lost a perfectly grown-up tooth to a “mystery flavor” Airhead back in 2004 or so.  Had to sand down the jagged edge with sandpaper so it would stop poking my tongue.  My dental coverage is much better these days.

As for the candy cigarettes, I always kinda liked ‘em.  But I’ve smoked precisely one real cigarette in my life, a little over two years ago, just to see if the experience could possibly be any less foul and unappealing than I’d always suspected it must be… after all, plenty of otherwise intelligent and tasteful people do it, and they must get something out of ‘em or they wouldn’t smoke twice.  But nope, it was nasty and made me slightly lightheaded, and the appeal continues to escape me.

But those candy cigs are great.

Now leave my circus peanuts alone.

pshaw

We should also get rid of those stupid satellite wafers/flying saucers. They don’t even taste like anything.