250pxzwei_zigaretten At seven or eight years old, I remember purchasing candy cigarettes and puffing on them pretending to be my cool uncle Ray. Just harmless fun, right? A report recently completed by Jonathan Klein of the University of Rochester with the assistance of an online Harris poll, shows a link between the fake cigarettes and real cigarettes. Clearly this sort of candy “coated” emulation is not acceptable, however some possible substitutions would be, candy coated mortgages, tax forms (1040 EZ or 1040 A), and TPS reports. But seriously, our job as adults are to allow children the ability to be children and not be thrusted into adulthood too soon. Yahoo