Don’t ban Smarties, too
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- March
- 24
I talked with Rockland Community College President Cliff Wood about the college’s policy to make the entire Suffern campus (and their Spring Valley and Haverstraw extensions) 100 percent smoke free. Story here.
I asked if the policy included all tobacco products, ie, chewing tobacco, which it doesn’t. But I forgot to ask if the policy switch, to take effect Sept. 1, includes smoking Smarties. Smoking Smarties, as in the little sugary candy rolls? Yup.
Check out the Fox interview grilling one of the first kids to post a how-to on Youtube. (The instructional videos suggest you don’t inhale. Sugar in your lungs can’t be good.)
Basically, you roll them around to create a little sugar dust, then unwrap the end, bring the sugar “smoke” into your mouth and exhale
Why? Well, of course, we would ask that. Likely a 12-year-old would ask, “Why not?” I remember getting candy cigarettes in my Trick or Treat bag. Did they make me smoke? No. Did my friends, my parents and others smoking make me smoke? Yes, for a while. Lucky I didn’t get addicted—because it’s a serious addiction.
There are everyday products that young people have turned into dangerous substances—huffing with aerosols is just one example. The substance isn’t the issue as much as the behavior.
But smoking Smarties isn’t smart, it isn’t good, and it’s a waste of a perfectly good candy.
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on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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wait? smarties? i thought smarties was the little candy tablets.
The gum cigarettes had the powder smoke that you blew out!
then there were the candy cigarrettes made from hard sugar. with a red tip.
kids have definitely gotten stupider. no moer street smarts. lets throw them in school and leave it to a teacher to not teach our kids how to be “smart”
sigh