Heh. Well, I can sort of see their point.When I was a kid, a popular dime store item was "Popeye candy cigarettes" (not sure if they still sell those - maybe?). They didn't look exactly like cigarettes or anything, but their shape and the little red end on them suggested cigarettes, and they were actually CALLED candy cigarettes.
Then there was this brand of bubblegum that was wrapped in wrappers that actually DID look like real cigarettes - the right size and shape, etc. My parents weren't crazy about the Popeyes, but they'd have had a bird if I came home with the other kind. I think I probably bought them once to see what they tasted like, but as a child who choked through smoke-filled car rides and lived in a smoke-filled home, cigarettes were the very LAST thing I thought were "cool".
I always figured the point of those candy cigarettes were to make cigarettes seem "cool" to kids, and to normalize the look and feel of them for kids, with the hope that they'll "graduate" to the real thing. I wouldn't let my kid buy candy cigarettes these days. So I can definitely understand people being wary of candy that looks like dime bags of cocaine.
I probably wouldn't let my kid get this simply because of the whole issue of handing your kid a package of powdered sugar to eat. (He doesn't generally get Fun Dip or bubble gum from me either.) But I would also be wary of it because of the look of it.