Lurking on the shelves of candy stores across the U.S. is a surprising remnant from the 20th century: candy cigarettes, or candy sticks as they're sometimes labeled today. Sold in cardboard boxes that ...

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 ...

Remember those chalky white sticks wrapped in paper that looked exactly like cigarettes? For kids in the '70s and '80s, candy cigarettes were the ultimate playground accessory. You could strut around ...

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 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. New York on Thursday sued some of the ...