candy cigarette boxes displayed on a shelf - Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Lurking on the shelves of candy stores across the U.S. is a surprising remnant from the 20th century: candy cigarettes, ...

Remember those chalky white sticks wrapped in paper that looked exactly like cigarettes? For kids in the '70s and '80s, candy cigarettes were the ultimate playground accessory. You could strut around ...

If you were born in a certain era — long before “helicopter parenting” — you probably thought smoking was disgusting, but figured you’d start at some point. After all, the local dime store had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Candy cigarettes aren't just a head-scratching relic of the past — they were once used by tobacco companies to train kids as the ...

Some of you are no doubt too young to remember them. They came in two forms when I was a kid in the late 60's. The first was a hard white candy stick the same length as a standard filtered cigarette ...

Electronic cigarettes are often billed as a safe way for smokers to try to kick their habit. But it's not just smokers who are getting their fix this way. According to a survey published by the ...