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.

Candy makers did start replacing the term "candy cigarettes" with "candy sticks" in an effort to keep the product on the market, but countries across the world had already started banning the ...

Candy sticks are still to be found, however, in some of those places -- though the red “lit-up” tip has gone away.

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.

A mom-and-pop candy shop in St. Paul, Minn., with a retro vibe, got a Prohibition-style visit from the authorities who threw the book at the soda jerks for selling cigarettes and cigars to ...

Candy cigarettes are made of candy or gum, shaped into cylindrical sticks and sold in rectangular boxes roughly the size of cigarette packs. In the US they are typically displayed next to the ...

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 but just a bit thinner. No particular flavor ...

Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes.City inspectors threatened a misdemeanor citation and $500 fine ...

But some kids who buy the candy do “go around like they’re cigarettes,” says 9-year-old Jessica Butler. Others just “eat them like carrots,” Amber says.

The first was a hard white candy stick the same length as a standard filtered cigarette but just a bit thinner. No particular flavor, unless "sucrose" is a flavor.