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The sugar industry is the new cigarette industry. History won't be kind to them.

• wolco 8y ago
  The sugar industry has been powerful for a long time. The first slaves were sugar workers. Back then the powers settled wars by trading islands with sugar. Sugar has and will be more powerful than cigarettes evet were.
  • r00fus 8y ago
    s/cigarettes/tobacco/ and it's still a crapshoot as to which is more powerful. Both are plantation crops and benefitted from slave labor.
    • blevin 8y ago
      Sugar is also a major ingredient in cigarettes. In some brands it is the #2 ingredient by weight. http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/27/3/357.1 http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/27/3/357.1