[xster]

let's talk about the actual nicotine slingers

https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-events/all-news/faculty-new...

Tobacco companies pivoting and hooking kids and adults with processed foods

[musicale]

Gives one pause doesn't it?

> Fazzino’s new study found that by 2018, the differences in previously tobacco-owned foods and other foods had mostly disappeared. It’s not that foods got healthier, Fazzino said, but that other companies saw what worked and many products likely were reformulated to make them just as hyper-palatable as those sold by their competitors.

Kind of explains why snacks are so delicious and irresistable.

I'm neutral on (tobacco company creation) Teddy Grahams though.

> bologna, crackers and processed cheese contained so much sodium and saturated fat that some doctors called it a “blood pressure bomb.”

swap the crackers for celery and you could market it as keto/low carb