Chocolate cigerattes

NedKelly

Does anyone here remember Chocolate cigerattes
looking back it seems crazy
they looked like cigerattes and had a red tip ad the end
and all 2- 10 year olds could practise their smoking (for later life)
hahaha i think its hillarious!!!
good aul 1980s!!!

starflake

okie dokie

arse..biscuits

Who was listening to newstalk 106 today?

Riamfada

I love them, used to pretend they were real. Im sure it is completley unrelated to my current smoking habit

NedKelly

hahahahah !! ok fair enough

biko

I used to get them too. Pretend to smoke and then scoff the chocolate down.

Riamfada

Actually giving children chocolate smokes. Was that not a tad irresponsible. I guess a modern analogy would be giving inner city kids candy heroin sticks

BLITZ_Molloy

Weren't they chewey candy rather than chocolate?

I was also a big fan, and am a current smoker so those advertisers are savvy chaps.

I'm pretty sure I heard you can still get sweet cigs in Asia or Africa or somewhere like that where regulation is a bit more lax.

Insect Overlord

They were so cool.
I never ended up smoking though, does that mean there's something wrong with me?

Ruu_Old

I remember the chocolate ones alright and later came the sticks of chalky type candy (Incredible Hulk on the box from what I remember).

omyatari

Ruu wrote: »

I remember the chocolate ones alright and later came the sticks of chalky type candy (Incredible Hulk on the box from what I remember).

the white ones with the red stuff inside?
legendary....
loved the choc ones too.

Quazzie

I ended up nearly choking on one when I was younger and I think this might be something to do with I have never touched a real cigarette. Screw Ad-men!!

Carroller16

They are illegal now

(3) It shall be an offence for a person to sell confectioneries normally intended for sale to children, that have been manufactured in such a way as to resemble in appearance a type of tobacco product.

alexandros

You can still buy them here:
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/chocolate-cigarettes.htm

You are welcome!!:p

Passenger

Remember them alright. The paper that covered the chocolate mad ethe whole exercise of eating them redundant hence why I walked around pretending to smoke 'em. But then the chocolate would melt from the heat of my fingers, mouth, etc.

The while chalk sticks were much tastier.

Atlantic1

Carroller16 wrote: »

They are illegal now

(3) It shall be an offence for a person to sell confectioneries normally intended for sale to children, that have been manufactured in such a way as to resemble in appearance a type of tobacco product.

That's right Carroller. All designed to help all those of us idiots who can't think for ourselves! But children won't mimmick people shooting each other etc. after watching programmes depicting same on tv. The world isn't half mad enough!

Atlantic1

NedKelly wrote: »

Does anyone here remember Chocolate cigerattes
looking back it seems crazy
they looked like cigerattes and had a red tip ad the end
and all 2- 10 year olds could practise their smoking (for later life)
hahaha i think its hillarious!!!
good aul 1980s!!!

I remember them well but I remember them in the 1970's! Sorry! :eek:

Ann22

I remember some kind of sweet cigarettes that were close to real ones in size...the bit in the middle was brown, can't remember if they were choc or some kind of gum. I do remember there was a light dusting of icing sugar (or flour?) on them that gave the appearance of smoke.

Atlantic1

Does anyone remember the sweet cigarettes that came in very small boxes of ten and had a fact sheet, including a flag, about various countries? Definitely late 60's/very early 70's. Extremely educational. I remember knowing the capital, population, flag and area of most countries in the world! :cool:

Locamon

Yeah the white chalky ones were best...might try that link and buy a few for old times sake...maybe not..pretty sure they were the reason I started smoking. Okay the fact nearly every peer did as well contributed.
Thank God I've kicked the habit a good few years now and I have more of a longing for some candy cigs.

tk123

Gah! Sweet cigs - my mam was giving up real smokes at one stage and found comfort in holding the candy stick kind. Mortified everyday going to the shop (I was in my teens) '10 packs of candy sticks pls' :rolleyes:

Sputnik101

I don't remember ones with red tips but I do remember chocolate cigerattes. I used to eat the paper on them as well although I don't think you were meant to lol!

mahamageehad

I remember chocolate cigarettes!!
1980's??

You could get them as recently as 2000 in Tipperary!!

Zaph

Atlantic1 wrote: »

Does anyone remember the sweet cigarettes that came in very small boxes of ten and had a fact sheet, including a flag, about various countries? Definitely late 60's/very early 70's. Extremely educational. I remember knowing the capital, population, flag and area of most countries in the world! :cool:

I remember them, they were the white ones already mentioned, and the end was dyed red to make it look like it was lit. They had cards in them like real cigarette cards from the 30s/40s. They weren't all educational though, I had a load of Thunderbirds cards which I thought were the coolest things ever.

Purple Lemons

I remember these from about 10 years ago, they were just white paper around the chocolate, I ate the paper too but im not sure if you were meant to >.<

The packaging looked just like Mammy's fag box and i thought i was the bee's knees lol

Also, have a very bad smoking problem atm...go figure.

deadhead13

Manky chocolate - but hey, they looked like cigarettes.

WindSock

I used to eat them with the paper still on. Actually, I ate half of them with paper on and half without, just to spice things up a little.

WindSock

Zaph wrote: »

I remember them, they were the white ones already mentioned, and the end was dyed red to make it look like it was lit. They had cards in them like real cigarette cards from the 30s/40s. They weren't all educational though, I had a load of Thunderbirds cards which I thought were the coolest things ever.

Ooh I remember these too. They were chewey and chalky at the same time.

ohanloj3

BLITZ_Molloy wrote: »

Weren't they chewey candy rather than chocolate?

THEY HAD CANDY ONES BUT THERE WAS CHOC ONES TOO

Purple Lemons

They were almost as bad as "eating paper" *shudders*

Locamon

Sputnik101 wrote: »

I don't remember ones with red tips but I do remember chocolate cigerattes. I used to eat the paper on them as well although I don't think you were meant to lol!

The red tip ones were the white candy ones not the chocolate version. Had forgotten about those free cards that came with them, don't remember ever collecting any.

Capt'n Midnight

didn't like the chocolate ones, but the white ones with the pink tips were nice

maybe we could bring then back as chalk sticks ?

Fajitas!

Ha-I remember the Tom & Gerry chalky ones...

Actually, there was loads of cartoons on them...

deathstarkiller

I remember the candy ones in a Spider-man box and you could cut out a Spider sign on the back that you could wear as a medallion. Oh dear, how sad.
I liked some of the choccie ones too but I remember some of them had really awful chocolate. Ah the good old silly days!