Wait - candy cigarettes got you to start smoking or eating too much candy?
If candy cigarettes actually led you to smoke, you'd be the first person I've ever heard of who started smoking under those circumstances!
I ate plenty candy cigarettes as a kid, but they never made me want to try real cigarettes. Besides, as kids, we used anything cigarette or cigar shaped as play smokes. From straws, sticks, Pixie Stix, licorice, sucker handles, Lincoln Logs - you name it. None of it made me want to try that first cigarette once I was in my mid-to-late teens. By the time I tried smoking, candy cigarettes were long forgotten!