candy cigarette boxes displayed on a shelf - Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Lurking on the shelves of candy stores across the U.S. is a surprising remnant from the 20th century: candy cigarettes, ...

Some of you are no doubt too young to remember them. They came in two forms when I was a kid in the late 60's. The first was a hard white candy stick the same length as a standard filtered cigarette ...

If you were born in a certain era — long before “helicopter parenting” — you probably thought smoking was disgusting, but figured you’d start at some point. After all, the local dime store had ...