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Smarties 'Smokers' Stressing Schools

Exhaling crushed candies looks like cigarette smoking

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 20, 2009 9:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – Parents and school officials are sweating over a new kids’ craze: “smoking” Smarties candies, the Wall Street Journal reports. Children crush the sugary discs into a powder in their wrapper, dump the powder into their mouths, and, in a move eerily reminiscent of cigarette... Read full story »

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