Beyond euphemism?

[Laurence Horn]

They certainly didn't back in the day, but they were still called candy cigarettes (without fear of lawsuits re truth in advertising), as with peanut butter, phone sex, sea lions, etc.  I guess if butter, sex, and lions were to become taboo the way cigarettes have, these items would need to self-identify differently too.

LH

On Feb 15, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 2/15/2014 02:56 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:
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>> The candy cigarettes at my local convenience store don't have the word
>> "cigarettes" anywhere on the packages.
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> Forgive my ignorance, but do they actually contain any tobacco,
> nicotine, et al.?
>
> Joel
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