Altria Takes Note

Back when I was a kid, these were called “candy cigarettes”:


Candy Sticks

Of course, back when I was a kid, you could buy dried tobacco products ready-made. But that was before eager taxation proponents passed continual waves of legislation designed to raise money on a socially-unaccepted product. Waves of legislation that had unintended consequences.

Which is why we’ll buy dried tobacco in the produce section someday soon. Because dried tobacco isn’t cigarettes, you see.

Neither are “candy sticks”, but it’s good to see that all the candy cigarette machinery didn’t get rusty.

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