Kids smoking Smarties? Yep.

[TropicalBob]

Great story. Someone explain again how we're going to prevent young people from experimenting with things?

Just Say No....to Smarties? Faux Smoking Has Parents Fuming - WSJ.com

Good thing they don't know about e-cigs.

 

[perkiekat]

Give it time...they will. I hope they don't figure out a way to use the ecig device for vapin' crack! Then we'd be accused of selling DRUG paraphernlia..."Hey..take a toke of your smoke and get a buzz along the way"

I just being funny today...but on the real side...it could happen.

 

[perkiekat]

Great story. Someone explain again how we're going to prevent young people from experimenting with things?

Just Say No....to Smarties? Faux Smoking Has Parents Fuming - WSJ.com

Good thing they don't know about e-cigs.

I just viewed the article you posted...my God!! What's up with todays kids?? Check this out from the article...

"The phenomenon of smoking Smarties -- a candy that has been around for six decades and is different from the candy-coated chocolates of the same name popular in the U.K. -- has led to dozens of how-to videos on video- sharing Web sites"

What a waste of talent!! They should be posting "how-tos" building a website! Nothing but rebellion!...I'll show you type of deal...but then again...they probably already know how to build sites and cook .... too as smart these kids are today!8-o

 

[dc2k08]

had to see this in action..this kid's got a quick tutorial for the uninitiated:

YouTube - How To Smoke Smarties

 

[CssReb]

Last month, Mark Shikowitz, an ear, nose and throat doctor at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., treated a boy about 9 years old who complained his nose was burning because of a Smarties incident. (His parents brought in a Smarties wrapper but weren't sure how he'd ingested them.)

Oren Friedman, a Mayo Clinic nose specialist, cautioned that frequent use could lead to infections or even worse, albeit rare, conditions, such as maggots that feed on sugary dust wedged inside the nose.

I think at 9 years old the kid is perfectly capable of communicating how he ingested the Smarties. If they're insinuating that he may have snorted Smarties dust, I'd be asking myself, where'd this 9 year old get that idea and the 1st people I'd be suspicious of is the parents.

Oops: I didn't know the youtube video shows a kid suggesting blowing it through the nose. But still, If the kid got the idea from the video, why is a 9 year old on youtube viewing how to smoke anything

 

[TropicalBob]

It's not a stretch to imagine a front page story of the "new" middle school fad of vaporizing whatever is a "new" Chinese tech toy called an e-cigarette. If that happens ...

 

[TropicalBob]

where'd this 9 year old get that idea and the 1st people I'd be suspicious of is the parents.

You never have had children, have you? Parents are the LAST people kids imitate. Peers rule. And just look at the rest of those young souls on YouTube puffing their Smarties. With YouTube, the "how to" is instantaneous.

These little darlings have mastered puffing a pipe or cigar using their Smarties technique. No inhaling, just in the mouth and out the nose.

You can't outsmart kids. Impossible. At 9, I was smoking Lipton tea in a pipe I made from cut bamboo, because Arthur Godfrey said Lipton tea was good that way. Kids find a way ..

 

[CssReb]

You never have had children, have you? Parents are the LAST people kids imitate. ..

Actually Bob, I do have kids.
Ages: 31 and 19.

One smokes and one doesn't. Hubby and I smoked analogs throughout their upbring so yea I think kids do imitate their parents and I don't disagree with you about peers.

 

[TRS1988]

dude, that kid must have skill, cos being the child at heart that i am... i tried it. i coughed, gagged, and yet did not have any sort of "smoke". plus his smarties looked like a nice thick blunt.

 

[dc2k08]

You can't outsmart kids. Impossible. At 9, I was smoking Lipton tea in a pipe I made from cut bamboo, because Arthur Godfrey said Lipton tea was good that way. Kids find a way ..

LMAO. I remember also very unsuccessfully attempting to smoke tea I had rolled up in some tissue paper in a corner the of the attic. It's a wonder I never set the house on fire. and if the teaches say this is banned, it'll only compel the kids to keep at it. Driving adults bonkers is what kids do best. Reject, resist and rebel!

It's not a stretch to imagine a front page story of the "new" middle school fad of vaporizing whatever is a "new" Chinese tech toy called an e-cigarette. If that happens ...

There was a story that ran in the Daily Express last week. It said children who were smokers in some schools in the UK were being given nicotine patches, gum and get this - fake cigarettes! in order to help them stave off the cravings during lessons. I wrote to the the paper and asked them if they could clarify as to whether the author was referring to e-cigs but I haven't heard back.

 

[Chris From Cali]

crap I'm sure the FDA is going to regulate those as well, damn I really liked smarties

 

[ritalee76]

Just the other day, my 9 year-old was telling me about one of the "bad" girls at school was smoking chalk!

I was amazed!

He showed me how the girl takes a piece of paper about the size of a rolling paper (from what I gather) and colors on it with the chalk... She then rolls it up in a tube and "smokes" it...

Now that I've seen this video, I understand what he was telling me...

Scary!

On the other hand, I am the oldest of five kids and my baby sister is 15 years younger than me. When I was like 18 or so (and she was three or four), she was obsessed with my cigarettes... Me being young and stupid, I let her take a drag off of my cigarette and she was disgusted and never has wanted one since! LOL

My parents would have killed me if they knew I let her try it out but she would follow me around and try to steal my smokes all the time!

 

[CandyGirl]

a bit ot here, but it really bothers me when i see children having so much access to a computer.

i routinely fix PC's for friends and relatives, mostly virus and malware removal.
when i show them the sites that are being visited by their children and/or spouses they usually can't believe it. i know it's hard to monitor the kiddies all the time but there is software out there that can restrict access to sites you wouldn't want them on.

breaks my heart that a young child knows how to make a "how to" vid like this and post it on youtube. where's mom and dad?

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

a bit ot here, but it really bothers me when i see children having so much access to a computer.

i routinely fix PC's for friends and relatives, mostly virus and malware removal.
when i show them the sites that are being visited by their children and/or spouses they usually can't believe it. i know it's hard to monitor the kiddies all the time but there is software out there that can restrict access to sites you wouldn't want them on.

breaks my heart that a young child knows how to make a "how to" vid like this and post it on youtube. where's mom and dad?

Watch that video again - the kid is speaking very softly, there's music in the background, and he keeps looking around very nervously - mom & pop are in another room - he's just being sneaky...like most kids.

 

[QueenInNC]

I mentioned this in a post last week. My daughter is in middle school (7th grade) and many of her friends "smoke" smarties. She says that she has not. I really hope that's the case. She had a sleepover at our house with three friends a few months ago and I caught one of the girls crushing them to snort them! I was mortified!!!!

 

[BREWINZ]

crap I'm sure the FDA is going to regulate those as well, damn I really liked smarties

 

[Nuck]

If I caught one of my kids smoking smarties I'd probably laugh at them, call them dorks and then forget about it. I've learned when it comes to raising kids that it's best not to sweat the small stuff.

 

[schnauzer4me]

wow.
no smarties for the little smarties at holloween this year

 

[DCrist721]

I really want to see someone blow a smoke ring with smarties. I'm amazed at how much it looks like smoke. When candy cigarettes were legally sold, did they work on this same principle and allow you to exhale candy "smoke", or did you just eat them?

EDIT: Holy crap, some of these kids are so little. Look at this little fellow coughing away on his smarties blunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brDaulTfJcY&feature=related

 

[Nuck]

I'm constantly amazed at how computer literate kids are now. My 7 yr old managed to log into my wife's old Vanguard (mmo) account, select the character and moved about the world (even used the portals) to find me in game without any help from either of us. He had learned it all just from occasionally watching like a sponge.

And before I get the the forums cops all over my .....our children NEVER get unsupervised access to a computer