{{Short description|Brand of candy cigarette}} thumb|FADS Fun Sticks (2000s onwards) '''FADS Fun Sticks''', formerly known as '''FAGS''', and later '''FADS''', are a brand of candy cigarette initially made by Riviera Confectionery (a division of Fyna Foods Australia) in Victoria, Australia, until its manufacturing was outsourced at an unknown date to Colombia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-11 |title=Fads – 15g |url=https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/93515795/fads |access-date=2026-04-29 |website=world.openfoodfacts.org |language=en}}</ref> First produced as FAGS (British/Australian slang for cigarettes) in 1943,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fyna.com.au/fads#:~:text=Fads%20Fun%20Sticks%20used%20to,changed%20to%20a%20pale%20yellow. | accessdate=March 29, 2022 | title=FADS were originally known as FAGS until the early 90's}}</ref> during the 1990s the product was renamed FADS amidst concerns of it promoting smoking to children<ref>{{Cite web |title=FADS |url=https://www.fyna.com.au/fads |access-date=2026-04-29 |website=www.fyna.com.au}}</ref> as well as pejorative connotations of the word. During the 2000s, "Fun Sticks" was added to the name to further distance the product from its connection to cigarettes.
The original candies were modelled after cigarettes, thin white sticks with a red tip to resemble a lit end.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T4GKa95tf0cC&dq=fags+australia+candy&pg=PA86 | title=The View from Connor's Hill: A Memoir | publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com | year=2010 | accessdate=April 4, 2013 | author=Heard, Barry | pages=86| isbn=9781458761187 }}</ref> The red tip was later removed during the 1990s with the name change.
<gallery> File:FAGS Candy cigarettes (pre-1990s).jpg|FAGS <br>(c. early 1990s with red-tipped candy cigarettes) <br>(clockwise from left)<br>Box front, box with top opened and candy cigarettes poking out, side of box. File:FADS 1990s.jpg|FADS<br>(c. mid-1990s)<br>Most of a flattened FADS box File:Old Style FADS Fun Sticks candy.jpg|FAGS/FADS<br>(c. early 1990s) <br>Candy alone with "lit" red tips. </gallery>
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Category:Australian confectionery