It appears that our city council is about to take time off from the little problems they usually face such as the budget squeeze, service reductions, crime, and restless youth, to attack something really serious – candy cigarettes.
Real cigarettes, those scraps of chemically-altered tobacco lined by a similarly-treated paper wrapper, often with a filter made of who-knows-what, are thought to be [and likely are] a health hazard and purchase and sale of such is limited to people over age 18.
Candy cigarettes are sold in packages which might be thought to resemble the packages for real cigarettes, but they are much smaller and the individual items inside are clearly smaller in all dimensions than the tobacco containing items they apparently parrot. As almost anybody with “D.D.S.” behind his/her name will tell you, candy can well be a health hazard.
But it seems that our city’s leaders think that consuming candy cigarettes encourages them to wish to illegally acquire tobacco cigarettes, so they should me made unavailable to people of all ages.
We have other things in our society that we think should only be done when people reach designated ages. Two of these are consuming alcoholic beverages [even those designated by law as “non-intoxicating”] and voting.
Maybe we need to consider outlawing root beer and iced tea for people of all ages, since they are similarly named and resemble alcoholic beverages and we must protect our children.
And let’s forget about “kids voting” programs.
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