People over a certain age may remember "smoking" with their parents using candy cigarettes. If you can't find them today, you might wonder if they're banned.

When candy cigarettes first appeared in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the product was designed to mimic the real thing, from its brightly decorated packaging to its artificial white-and-orange ...

Twisted Berry. Berry Honey. Cherry Dynamite. They aren’t in the candy aisle but on the tobacco shelf, often sold in 99-cent two-pack mini-cigars or liquid cartridges for e-cigarettes.

But one candy might make you a little nostalgic and a little (okay, a lot) alarmed at the same time — those little candy cigarettes that let you pretend to be all grown up.

But like candy, it comes in such flavors as grape, chocolate and root beer. To top things off, it’s sold in hip venues like head shops and health-food stores at a cost of about a buck a pack ...

Candy cigarettes, they seem to have realized, were free advertising, a gateway for kids into the world of smoking. (“Just Like Daddy!” read the slogan on one brand’s boxes.) ...

One state, North Dakota, actually outlawed candy cigarettes from 1953 to 1967, but federal lawmakers who tried the same were no match for Big Tobacco’s friends in Congress.

The article, “History of childhood candy cigarette use is associated with tobacco smoking by adults.” appears in Preventive Medicine, Volume 44, number 7, July 2007, published by Elsevier.

Apart from his weight issues, Candy also had another dangerous habit: cigarettes. "When I first met John he was already smoking," says a pal in the clip, adding that the actor was just 15 or 16 ...