Kids and Candy Cigarettes

-"Candy cigarettes and 'Toddlers and Tiaras'"
-Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times
-September 15, 2012
-http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-candy-cigarettes-toddlers-tiaras-20120914,0,1531305.story
There was outrage after Destiny, a four-year-old girl on a show called "Toddlers and Tiaras", pretended to smoke a candy cigarette for one of her performances, trying to mimic the stars in the musical, 'Grease'. Destiny's mother had talked to Nancy Grace about allowing her to perform this, and had said that her daughter knows about the harms of smoking, and the candy cigarette was simply a prop. Amanda Marcotte, along with everyone else had a few thoughts on this topic, and decided to write about it. In this column, she wrote about how pageants have affected society. This show is an example of how one should not raise their children because they are being spoiled and taught that their looks are what matter most, at such a young age. The article continues on to explain that a study in 2007 showed that these candy cigarettes might cause children to start smoking when they grow older. These candies are no longer found in a few select countries, or have been renamed as "candy sticks" rather than "cigarettes".