answer:While they aren’t banned, I believe that brick and mortar grocery and convenience stores either can’t or won’t sell them. I have only seen them for sale at candy stores that specialize in nostalgia candy. They seem to be surrounded by other old fashioned candies that kids of today would deem too gross to eat. Old people love buying their old candies, though. Other than those stores, I’ve only seen them for sale online. I had the gum cigars as a kid. The gum was very tasty—except for the banana. Ick ick ick. I never bothered pretending to smoke them. I just loved that gum. The candy cigarettes were nasty and cheap. They were too gross to pretend to smoke. Bubblegum cigarettes on the other hand. Oh I loved to pretend to smoke those. Each piece of gum came wrapped in paper just like a real cigarette. When you blew into one end, a cloud of powdered sugar came out the other end. It looked like real smoke!