I'm guessing you've never seen a used tampon because that is not what they look like.

... I don't think anyone could mistake these for used tampons.

👀

Definitely should have colored an orange filter and left it at that. If you wanted the extra the other end could be dipped in gray and speckled with red

Ehhhh they’ll pass but I’d have used orange.

Blunts joints dipped in ketchup.

There once was a vampire named Mabel
Whose periods were really quite stable
And every full moon
She would get a spoon
And drink herself under the table

Too different a form factor to ever think they might be tampons to me

...I don't mean to be rude but like have you seen a tampon before?

Don't be shy. Go as a perverted vampire with real tampons and fake blood. Own it.

Absolutely nothing like a used tampon.

You're fine, used tampons look more like filleted slugs.

To make them more like cigarettes you could use a bit of cocoa or food grade activated charcoal for ash, or just burn the ends with a lighter. Bright yellow or orange sprinkles could be embers. Wrap brown paper around the other end for the filter.

To make them more like tampons, use them to skewer marshmallows, lightly roast over a flame until marshmallows melt together and turn yellowish with a few bubbles, then slather in cranberry sauce.

A gold or yellow wash should salvage them.

A mottled tan “filter” at the other end will also make them more cigarette-like.

I like that these candy sticks commonly used to be sold as candy cigarettes, only for people to be outraged and so the companies changed them to generic "sticks," just for you to go and dip the tip in red (they used to do the same, add more yellow to your red) reinventing candy cigarettes.

Ceci n'est pas une cigarette.

Edit: Hey they still make them!

I mean if you're worried about it you can buy a ceramic one-hitter that looks close enough to a cigarette at 20 feet from any head shop for like $5.

Fake cigarettes.

They look like cigarettes to me.

I agree with others, much too red

a little orange would make them more like cigarettes, just saying

No

yes

They need a filter and some orange in the red to look like a ciggy over a tampon. Embers aren't that red.

I am so confused.

If you had not dipped these in ... food coloring, for some reason...?

... they, on their own, look fairly close to well rolled rollies.

A rollie is when you are broke and addicted to cigs, so you buy rolling papers and loose tobacco, and just roll up your own little cig, no filter.

... I... guess they kind of look like some kinds of onehitters I've seen? Early, silly e-cigs that were made to look like actual cigs?

Either way, I have no idea how these could be confused with tampons, they're waay too small.

Also... cabaret? A vampire?

What do these intrinsically even have to do with cigarettes, or smoking?

... Are you stuffing them into like a 1920's style stem type cigarette holder thing?

Are you going as a suffragette? A debutante?

They look like badly rolled cigarettes that someone mistook for tampons for a moment, and tried to insert them all, but just the tip

Real cigarettes

Looks like red chalk wrapped in paper. I remember having those in school around the end of the previous millenium - The paper prevents your fingers from being stained.