{"id":9473,"date":"2012-12-26T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9473"},"modified":"2012-12-26T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:37:47","slug":"soda-shop-threatened-with-citation-selling-candy-cigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9473","title":{"rendered":"Soda Shop Threatened With Citation, Selling Candy Cigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/candycigs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9475\" title=\"candycigs\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/candycigs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP Dec 26, 2012) &#8211; Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 City inspectors threatened a misdemeanor citation and $500 fine if Lynden&#8217;s soda fountain is caught selling the fake smokes again. The Star Tribune reported Wednesday\u00a0 that the offering violated an ordinance barring the sale of candy smokes and cartoon character lighters.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A city spokesman says the warning came after inspectors received and looked into a complaint about the presence of the tobacco-themed products. The ordinance was enacted to discourage youngsters from picking up a real smoking habit.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shop owner Tobi Lynden says the white candy sticks with the red tips were her best-selling candy item but she pulled them to avoid running afoul of the ordinance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP Dec 26, 2012) &#8211; Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 City inspectors threatened a misdemeanor citation and $500 fine if Lynden&#8217;s soda fountain is caught selling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}