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Tobacco and sugar vendors are quick to endorse this sentiment.
by angiosperm 3y ago
Tobacco and sugar vendors are quick to endorse this sentiment.
- postalrat 3y agoAttempts to frighten people with bullshit rarely work for long then backfire.
- angiosperm 3y agoAnd then they die, in droves, but neatly out of sight. "Nothing to see here, just millions dying from lung and throat cancer, and from complications from fatty-liver disease." (Vs. barely a couple hundred lately via Boeing, conveniently overseas. Between flying 737-Max and tobacco, I would recommend the former.)
- sneak 3y agoTobacco kills 7x as many in the US as the “opiate crisis” every day, week, month, and year. He’s got an important point.
- angiosperm 3y agoAnd sugar way more than tobacco.
- postalrat 3y agoProtein and fat kills just as many.
- angiosperm 3y agoNo. Fat, in particular, has been blamed for the illnesses caused in fact by sugar and by hydrogenated oils (called "trans fat" on US food labels). Most people still believe that saturated fat is the cause of those illnesses, and still prefer "low-fat" food laced, instead, with sugar. Technically, trans fats were supposed to be banned in US food, but major corporations get from the FDA a "temporary exception", year after year, to put it in anyway, with no requirement to reveal it as "trans fat" on the label. It has been well-known as a major cause of heart disease since the '70s, but took until late in the last decade to get (technically) banned.
- varelse 3y ago[dead]