Can you still buy chocolate cigarettes? I remember buying a packet of Camels LOL.. and my mum flipped! I can understand why now.. I wouldnt' want DS playing/eating chocolate cigarettes.

So I'm kinda the same.. I don't want to be too strict with what/how DS plays with (will be a hard line to draw - I don't have a prob with water pistols or nerf guns.. but if they war-type guns, and like toy replicas of the real thing I wouldn't let him have it), but I do believe it has an influence. I agree that children do play grown up life.. I mean really - tea parties aren't fun! But they're imitating us sitting down and having a cuppa.. and they learn from observing, and then 'playing' it.