Make Your Own Sweets With a Candy Mold!
 by: Mike Yeager

Candy molds make candy making easy! With only a few basic tools, you can make candy that looks professional and exquisite, as if they came from any of the finest specialty shops.

For chocolate lovers, you can find a chocolate candy mold of practically any design. You can make chocolate hearts, chocolate eggs even chocolate Christmas trees! Holidays and special occasions are only the beginning. Think of the gift baskets you could give to friends! Who wouldn’t be pleased to receive a basket of beautiful fine chocolates!

Nothing is more delightful than a clever sucker. All you need is a hard candy mold and a little time in the kitchen, and it’s easy to make a batch of creative sweets. These are especially popular with the children.

With candy molds, you can make treats for any occasion, at a fraction of the cost of buying them from the store, and have a lot of fun doing it! It's amazing how satisfying it is to see the work of your own hands turn out so beautifully.

Candy molds are great to use when you need to make specially designed treats for a wedding or other special occasion. Chocolate party favors are always a hit, especially if they’re made with a favorite candy mold designed to accentuate your parties theme.

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Mike Yeager

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Candy- and Fruit-Flavored Cigarettes Banned - Yahoo! News

Rebecca
Viksnins Snowden

Candy-
and fruit-flavored cigarettes are now illegal, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) said this week. The ban is the first move by the
FDA to enact the anti-tobacco initiatives outlined by the Family
Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed by President Obama
in June.

“Big Tobacco for
years has used candy- and fruit-flavorings in their cigarettes to
attract and addict young smokers,” said John R. Seffrin, PhD,
CEO of the American Cancer Society and the American Cancer Society
Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). “The ban on cigarette
flavors that are blatantly intended to hook children is a critical
first step toward reversing that trend.”

Research shows that the younger
you start smoking, the more likely you are to smoke as an adult. Almost
90% of adult smokers started at or before the age 19. And people who
start smoking at younger ages are more likely to develop long-term
nicotine addiction than people who start later in life.

Flavored cigarettes are
especially popular among kids and teens, in part because they are sold
in enticing flavors such as chocolate, cherry, strawberry, and orange.
Because of the flavorings, teens and kids often think these products
are safer than regular cigarettes.

"Flavored cigarettes attract
and allure kids into lifetime addiction," said U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Howard K. Koh,
MD, MPH. "FDA's ban on these cigarettes will break that cycle for the
more than 3,600 young people who start smoking daily."

The bill requires tobacco
companies to stop making, shipping, and selling flavored cigarettes and
requires vendors to pull the products off their shelves.

The ban does not apply to
menthol cigarettes or other flavored tobacco products like cigars at
this time, but the FDA may rule on these areas in the future.

“The tobacco industry
has spent the last 50 years misleading smokers about the dangers of
tobacco use and marketing to youth,” said Daniel E. Smith,
president of ACS CAN. “The ban on candy- and fruit-flavorings
in cigarettes is only one aspect of this lifesaving new law that has
the potential to break the deadly cycle of addiction and put an end to
Big Tobacco’s targeting of our nation’s
children.”

The bill will also eventually
require cigarette makers to disclose product ingredients to the FDA and
prohibit them from using misleading labels such as "low tar" or "light"
on cigarette packages. And it will hold tobacco companies to marketing
restrictions – for example, they will no longer be allowed to
advertise near schools or sponsor entertainment and sporting events.

For more information about the
legislation, see our story, "Tobacco Regulation Bill Becomes Law." To
learn more about tobacco use among children and teens, see this
document. To find out what your lawmakers are doing to lessen the
impact of tobacco in your community, visit the American Cancer Society
Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN).

Reviewed by:
Members of the ACS
Medical Content Staff

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