Candy-Assed Researchers Study Candy Smoking Kids

New research shows that if you smoked candy cigarettes as a child, you are more likely to smoke real cigarettes as an adult (as opposed to candy cigarettes as an adult, I suppose)

The study is the first to show a statistical link between a history with fake cigarettes and adult experiences with real smokes —22 percent of current or former smokers had also regularly consumed candy cigarettes, while only 14 percent of those who have never smoked had eaten or played with candy cigarettes often or very often.

I'm not so sure that's a cut and dry link between smoking Popeye's and smoking smokes, it all seems a bit weak. 22% to 14% is not a slam dunk.

If the researchers are trying to find out why smokers smoke and what drove them to smoking, ask the smokers if their parent were addicted to the evil weed. I'm sure you will find most smokers parents smoked, most likely in front of them, and probably in the house.

If you followed the reasoning of the researchers, then kids that played with dinky cars, FAST dinky cars, are more likely than kids that played with Tonka trucks to be fast drivers with no concern for others on the road. Or kids that played with toy guns have a better chance of turning into gun-wielding murderers as adults, that's simply ridiculous.

Compulsive/addictive personalities have more to do with why smokers smoke than candy cigarettes. Then again, maybe grant money wouldn't be given to researchers to find out something that's so blatantly obvious as that.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em!