After all, the local dime store had packages of candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars, and later “Big League Chew” (a chewing tobacco simulacrum made entirely out of dextrose and assorted sweeteners). I sat next to a little girl who made a fancy-schmancy ashtray by flattening a circle, and lifting up the sides. Six years after the Surgeon General’s Report, the country considered a national ban on candy cigarettes (1970 and 1991) but these didn’t pass. Which built character.”Family Recipe Box Executive Board Member Mary C. Barclay noted: I “smoked” thousands of candy cigarettes in my youth. Candy Cigarettes and frosted cupcakes: Let your imagination soar — stick a ciggie in the middle of a cupcake so everyone at the birthday party can “blow” out the candle.