Will Smoking Smarties Encourage Teens to Smoke Cigarettes?

Smoking Smarties is the newest fad among young teens. It involves crushing a packet of Smarties candies while still in their cylindrical wrapper, inhaling the sugary powder, and exhaling it so it looks like smoke from a cigarette. The idea is to puff on this imitation cigarette like you would a cigar, just inhaling the sugar into your mouth, not into your lungs. Of course if kids do inhale the ground up candy into their lungs, they'll end up coughing, but this is not where the harm lies. The true concern is what this ritual may promote. Check out the CBS News video below to hear more. Get Flash to see this player. var so2968787 = new SWFObject('http://media35.onsugar.com/static/flash/mediaplayer.swf','mpl','400','300','7'); so2968787.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so2968787.addVariable("file",'2968787.flv'); so2968787.addVariable('height', 328); so2968787.addVariable('image','http://media35.onsugar.com/files/ons2/426/4260901/43_2009/2968787.jpg'); so2968787.addVariable('width',' ...  more

Smoking Smarties is the newest fad among young teens. It involves crushing a packet of Smarties candies while still in their cylindrical wrapper, inhaling the sugary powder, and exhaling it so it looks like smoke from a cigarette. The idea is to puff on this imitation cigarette like you would a cigar, just inhaling the sugar into your mouth, not into your lungs. Of course if kids do inhale the ground up candy into their lungs, they'll end up coughing, but this is not where the harm lies. The true concern is what this ritual may promote. Check out the CBS News video below to hear more. Get Flash to see this player. var so2968787 = new SWFObject('http://media.onsugar.com/static/flash/mediaplayer.swf','mpl','400','300','7'); so2968787.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so2968787.addVariable("file",'2968787.flv'); so2968787.addVariable('height', 328); so2968787.addVariable('image','http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons2/426/4260901/43_2009/2968787.jpg'); so2968787.addVariable('width','400') ...  more