Finland Aims to Eradicate Pipe-Shaped Candies

[theloniousmonkfish]

Man, I completely forgot about those, think they came in a set of two. Yeah, definitely "smoked" them and chewed the fake cigarette and cigar gum and ate the chalky red stained tip candy cigarettes. Of course the bags of tobacco were in the same aisle as all that candy too.....

 

[aldecaker]

The only tobacco-themed candy I ever liked were the bubblegum cigars. I grew up to be not a cigar smoker. Wierd, huh?

 

[dottiewarden]

Attacking tobacco and tobacco related products, including candies with a tobacco related theme, makes for an ideal distraction as the new, new world order widen the gap between haves and havenots. Hopefully they will bore themselves with us soon and move onto some other vulnerable scapegoat.
Carnivores perhaps?

 

[buroak]

Ah Finland. They're also experimenting with giving everyone a stipend. Awesomeness in a non thinking world.

The stipend thing could actually prove to be brilliant. Milton Friedman thought such income guarantees were a good idea. The crusade against pipes and tobacco, though, is quite daft.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Man, they would have a stroke over this!

 

[buroak]

Chasingembers, that brings back some memories.

 

[alexnorth]

Dottiewarden you might be right! Fortunately for them, the rules mostly apply to the have-nots.

 

[toobfreak]

You can still that good ol' hard stuff, just that it isn't often carried in most stores these days due to political correctness.
Candy Cigarettes
and
Bubble Gum Cigars

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Everything is highly taxed by government here,even using your personal car involves annual tax,bans and regulations all over,leaving alone tobacco,speaking in general the cost of living is very expensive here,mostly same thing with Sweden,although,were I younger I'd leave this welfare kingdom moving to Spain or U.S.

 

[cranseiron]

We'll Paulie, from what I read, Finland can at least brag about its education system!

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Cranse Iron: Free basic education+colleges,heath care,welfare,social housing,assulium seekers and on, keeping this all up and going further require huge money and evantually leads to high taxes most on everything imaginable.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Here in the UK when I was a kid, one could buy 'tobacco' in a sweetshop called 'Spanish Gold'. Basically it was shredded coconut dyed brown and did remarkably resemble a pile of ribbon/shag tobacco. If I recall it was sold in flip top boxes of the cigarette type.
Not seen it in years but it was rather nice ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Jay, in the US, we call that Molto Dolce. :wink:

 

[inquisitor3]

You have to give Finland props for fending off Russia in WWII. Tough people. But this? Have they banned soap bubble pipes too?

 

[paddypiper]

How in the world does a candy even remotely promote smoking? I mean I remember candies like that when I was a kid, and I remember thinking I looked cool because I had a fake pipe, but I doubt that's what led me to actually smoke a pipe. It was more likely the chocolate cigarettes and chocolate cigars from my childhood that led to pipe smoking.