I remember from my 80's/90's childhood candy cigarettes [essentially sugar compressed into long cylinders]... just the other day, at a Southern US sporting good

I remember from my 80's/90's childhood candy cigarettes [essentially sugar compressed into long cylinders]... just the other day, at a Southern US sporting goods store, I saw "Big Chew Gum," which had a baseball player with a wad of tobacco ("gum") in his mouth. Thought this was strange, as chewing tobacco is probably more addictive than cigarettes, and the gum's packaging was clearly set at child-height.