Bubble Gum Cigarettes memories...
I LOVE your site! Just seeing the picture of the candy cigarettes brought back the memory of myself and 3 other cousins who used to do chores around our grandma's house to earn a quarter which we would then spend at the corner candy store. We would always get bubblegum cigarettes and thought we were so cool standing there blowing the powder out the other end. One day my uncle saw us and decided it was time to teach us all a lesson. He gave us each a REAL cigarette and asked us to tell him how we liked them. Well, after ONE puff, we all turned green to the gills and after that we all stuck to the candy variety from then on. It's been 30 years and none of us smoke anything but the candy kind! ~ Stephanie from Michigan I grew up an Army brat. My father would go off to serve his country and left my mother, sister, & I here. He went oversees and walked into this drugstore that sold bubble gum cigarettes. During those times we didn't carry a lot of variety when it came to candy, etc. So he decided to mail me a box of 5 to 10. I remember it became a routine, every time he would leave us to the call of duty. I recall stopping him before he left and reminding him to send those bubble gum cigarettes. And sure enough I would find myself running to the mailbox everyday awaiting there arrival. The main thing (besides it being an item no other child had) was that the gum blew out smoke like a real cigarette. I use to show off to all the kids that I was all grown up. ~ Lisa from Texas Like most stories I have read, I remember being a small child and LOVING the Bubble Gum
Cigarettes. I was number five of six kids and the sister right above me loved them too, and of course I wanted to be just like her! My favorite ones
were the ones that you could do one good puff of smoke before you ripped off the paper and dug into the gum. |
