Candy Cigarettes

Just the other day my family was discussing candy cigarettes. If you are of a "certain age" then I'm sure you remember them. When I was a young girl, I used to buy them on candy shopping expeditions with my friends to Kolob Drug- a corner drugstore in my neighborhood. Going there seemed exotically dangerous as the proprietor was surly and there was a rumor he had killed a man. I'm sure he was surly having to deal with all the bored kids who liked to traipse through his store during the hot summer days.

My family and I speculated that surely candy cigarettes are no longer available as they are sooooooo politically incorrect. Imagine my surprise then when I saw them at a little candy shop I visited today in Reno, Nevada. It seems fitting somehow that you can find them in Nevada- land of the cigarette smoke-filled casinos.