Do candy cigarettes encourage young people to smoke?

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7257.362

BMJ 2000;321:362-365 ( 5 August )

Education and debate

Do candy cigarettes encourage young people to smoke?

Jonathan D Klein, associate professor of paediatrics ^a, Steve St Clair, attorney at law ^b.

^a Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester NY 14642, USA, ^b 1300 East Walnut Street, Des Moines, IA 50319, USA

Correspondence to: J D Klein jonathan_klein@urmc.rochester.edu

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Advocates of public health care consider candy cigarettes (cigarette sweets) one example of the way in which internationaltrademark or copyright laws are violated to promote tobacco productsto children. ¹ ² People with vested interests in confectioneryand tobacco have denied these claims and argued that restrictionson confectionery resembling tobacco products are unnecessary.We review recently available documents from the tobacco industry,which describe cooperation between the manufacturers of tobaccoand candy cigarettes, ineffectual trademark enforcement, evidencethat candy cigarettes may promote smoking, suppression of unfavourablefindings from research sponsored by the confectionery industry,and successful attempts to avoid legislation or regulation.

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We searched for items referring to "candy cigarettes" and related terms from several sources. We identified public documents,government records, and journal articles by using Nexis to searchnews articles in English from 1980 to 1999. We also searched indexeddocuments from the files of American Tobacco, the Council for. . . [Full text of this article]

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