Posted on 04/11/2009 9:45:16 AM PDT by thecodont
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
It Sounds Bizarre, But Just Take A Look On YouTube And You'll See It's Very Real -- And Very Dangerous
It's taking place in lunchrooms, playgrounds and classrooms across the tri-state area.
It may even be happening in your own home -- kids smoking candy.
But doctors and safety experts say this new trend isn't so sweet.
Every so often, 18-year-old Jeremy Froncek says he sneaks a smoke.
"Around the house, ya know, outside of work," Froncek said.
But he's not puffing on cigarettes. He's "smoking" candy.
It sounds bizarre -- even impossible. But kids grind up pieces of candy -- like "Smarties" – and they actually inhale the fine candy powder then blow it out like cigarette smoke.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...
I used to get those. I lit mine. With a zippo. There were cigars too. I liked those better.
“I remember in the olden days, when candy cigarettes were available. Packaged to look like real cigarettes, they were white wintergreen-flavored sticks with a red tip.”
I do too!
You can still get them on the internet.
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/candy-cigarettes.htm
They have all kinds of old fashioned candy that you don’t see in stores anymore.
Free Republic — where no scare is too silly to be withheld.
Kids in Cuba aren’t even allowed one packet of granulated sugar unless they have permission from “management.” So there.
kids have been trying to smoke stuff for ages”
Pine needles rolled in toilet paper, called a bum waddo.
Not that I have ever tried it. What about snorting Pixi Stix?
In other news, Children have been found to be making faces and crossing their eyes. Frantic parents fear they will stay that way.
Next week:
Potatoes growing behind dirty ears. Fact or fiction?
Will those potatoes be edible?
Yes, and didn’t the hippies smoke banana peels back in the ‘60s?
As an avid cigar smoker, I’ll admit it started with a Baby Ruth bar.
But seriously...Want a sure way to get kids to DO something, tell them not to.
I suspect I have a FEW years on you !
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