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The public fight over cigarettes online is taking new shapes, literally, as Colorado becomes a testing ground for nicotine in the form of toothpicks, breath mints and strips that dissolve on the tongue.

The new forms of cigarettes — potentially attractive to kids and a crutch for smokers whom health officials say should quit nicotine altogether — prompted public hearings and a scramble by regulators.

cigarettes critics condemn the products as dangerous "candy" and a cynical move by Big cheap cigarettes to boost sales.

But Colorado efforts to blunt the new dissolvables will be hampered by the 2011 legislature's move to take a dedicated cigarettes-fighting tax to plug budget holes.

The state will have only $5.4 million for cigarettes-fighting grants this year, down from $25.43 million from the Amendment 35 buy cigarettes tax in 2007.

The state public health department has called a special hearing on the new buy cigarette online forms for Wednesday.

"In my mind there's no safe level of cigarettes," said Dr. Chris Urbina, director of the Department of Public Health and Environment. "I'd be very concerned about children picking these up. These look like small candy or mints."

cigarettes companies say the new products appeal to smokers increasingly shut down by smoke-free zones. Cigarette smoking cigarettes is down, but they've seen profitable growth in "spitless" cheap cigarette online pouches and the new dissolvable products.

The Camel products "are made for and marketed to adult discount cigarettes consumers. As a matter of fact, we developed the products in response to adult cigarettes for sale consumers who told us they were interested in products like our Camel dissolvables," said R.J. Reynolds cigarettes spokesman Richard Smith. "It is a guiding principle and belief at R.J. Reynolds cigarettes Company that youth should not use cigarettes products."

Reynolds' Camel brand has the dissolving cigarettes products in Colorado convenience stores and smoke cigarettes shops. A "variety pack" sells for $2 to $4, cheaper than cigarettes in part because state law does not yet treat it as a taxable cigarettes product, avoiding a 40 percent tariff.

Reynolds' Smith objects to health advocates referring to the products as candy, saying that will only pique the interest of children. The new products are sold from the same shelves with the same age rules and health warnings as cigarettes and other cigarettes, he said.

State and federal health officials are still evaluating how much control they have over the new forms of cigarettes, with issues over other products like e-cigarettes also waiting to be settled.

Smokeless cigarettes products are considered less dangerous than inhaling nicotine and other chemicals but still pose heightened risk for heart disease and oral cancers.

Dissolving products deliver about the same amount of nicotine as cigarettes, though they may not have other harmful chemicals associated with smoking cigarettes. The addictive qualities of nicotine are the most worrisome, said Heather LaChance, a psychologist who is acting chief of psychosocial medicine at National Jewish in Denver.

"Per milligram, nicotine is the most addictive substance known to man," LaChance said. Working with clients on smoking cigarettes cessation, LaChance has found many who become addicted to FDA-approved nicotine "lozenges" just as they were hooked on cigarettes.

The federal Food and Drug Administration has new powers to regulate cigarettes, but which categories fall under that control are unclear. Congress required the FDA to study health effects and marketing of dissolvable cigarettes and report back in March 2012.

"Colorado is in a unique place to help FDA understand the nature of these products, because Colorado is a test market," said Erika Sward, director of national advocacy for the American Lung Association.

Camel's first round of testing was in Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; and Portland, Ore., Sward said. Now Denver is paired with Charlotte, N.C., for a second test.

Manufacturers see the products as "a way to keep smokers addicted instead of quitting," Sward said. One Camel package looks like a cellphone, and the lung association worries kids will use the products without their parents or school officials noticing.

Health officials are also warning of the potential short-term toxic effects of young children stumbling across items that look like candy and ingesting too much.

"Unfortunately, Colorado has slashed funding for its once-strong and well-respected cigarettes prevention program," Sward said.

Colorado's public hearing will spend some time airing health effects of the dissolvable products.

Cigarettes contain about 8 to 14 milligrams of nicotine, with smokers usually absorbing 0.5 to 2.5 milligrams of that total, Reynolds claims. Camel Snus, a previous smokeless cigarettes product in small pouches that fit inside the mouth, has about 6 milligrams of nicotine to absorb depending on how long it's used.

By comparison, according to Reynolds, the Camel Stick shaped like a toothpick has 3 milligrams of nicotine; the Orb mint has 1 milligram; and the dissolvable Strip has 0.5 milligrams.

"On average, adult cigarettes consumers get about the same amount of nicotine or less from a Camel Stick/Strip/Orb as they do from other dissolvable or smokeless products," said Smith, of Reynolds.

Researchers are still comparing how much nicotine is delivered to the body by different products. While health officials sort out the physical dangers, other state officials have begun using existing powers to contain the products.

The Department of Revenue is out making checks of age-monitoring at sales points for dissolvable cigarettes, as it does for cigarettes and other products. A recent state House bill aimed primarily at e-cigarette cartridges also gave the department regulatory oversight on derivatives such as the mints, strips and toothpicks.

Combined with synthetic marijuana products, now banned in Colorado, the cigarettes versions are keeping regulators busy, said Laura Harris, director of liquor and cigarettes enforcement for the state revenue department.

"There are a lot of things out there that are presenting new challenges," Harris said.

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