April 22nd, 2009 by Sarah Newton

With a new craze of smoking sweets hitting America advice is talk to your teenagers about smoking now!

And it looks like this craze is set to hit the U.K. No I do not want to cause a moral panic here, just to keep you informed and as the question of ” could it be time to talk to our teens about smoking in different way?”

Info about this craze from Raising Kids

Gone are the days of sweet cigarettes but a newly-hyped pre-teen trend is making them look positively naive. Incidents of wannabe ravers chopping and snorting lines of sweets in the playground have been widely reported in the UK press this week.
Read Sherbet sweetie snorting craze hype

Video on smoking smarties ( no not the chocolate kind)

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