Can you believe they made a toy like this for kids in the 50s?

[smahala1991]

Play cigarettes and a play lighter 😂🤣

[Jjpayne]

Getting them started early huh 😂

That's pretty bad... It's almost as bad as a doctor during a check up saying "you got a bad cough there jim... Here's a pack of cigarettes why don't you light those up tonight, they should help you feel better"

[smahala1991]

They literally advertised doctors smoking in the 50s

[Jjpayne]

I was partly referencing that too And the Flintstones too

[Static_In_The_Attic]

In the 50’s times were different & toys were different as well. Future generations will look back on the toys being sold today the same way we look at toys that were made in the past. The above atomic energy lab above was made in 1950 & had real uranium in it. Anyone remember candy cigarettes?

[JosyJosy]

I can already see the mom glare at dad during Christmas

[WhiteSteve]

I definitely believe it, haha. I’m old enough to remember candy cigarettes as a kid, those stuck around into at least the late 80s.

[DizzyDesii]

Man thas crazy dumb

[hellohruu]

Yeah! It’s funny

[Avicenna]

Yeah, I can. Smoking peaked in the US in 1954.

[josephinelcajon]

Yes it was common for everyone to smoke as young as preteens. I remember candy cigarettes that puffed out powder sugar to simulate smoking.

[Gwenhwyfar]

Weird

[Jamie05rhs]

@Gwenhwyfar Haha. Someone in your firm probably had to defend a suit about this at one point or another.

[Gwenhwyfar]

@Jamie05rhs probably 😊

[SirRexington]

Well it was the 50s. Half of it was awesome and the other half was horrendous.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Wow that is something in other words, in the 50's they were encouraging kids that it was okay to smoke

[douride2]

Yes I would.

[genericname85]

of course. smoking was considered a medicine at that time. the tobacco lobby has hidden the addictive and carcinogenic properties fromm the population for multiple decades.

just like the pharma industry hides certain facts right now. this level of corruption always exists.

[Jamie05rhs]

Yes, I can believe it.

[LogicBomber]

Yes. And kids used to have candy cigarettes. I remember loving them and yet I have never smoked.
Just like used to play with GI joes and didn’t join the ARMY

[Gedaria]

Oh yes I have eaten a lot of them. They were still around in the late 70s

[Syrian_survivor]

I mean better than kids smoking actual cigarettes cuz so many in my country do lmao

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Yes, this was before people know that cigarettes caused cancer

[redvelvetcx]

I remember candy cigarettes existing when I was a kid

[EstevanMadrid898]

Yeah they still do when I was a kid I had some they came in regular and cigars, the cigars I think or more toxic I think I got sick one time