10-05-2012, 05:09 PM
So I used to be a smoker. Currently, I still on occasion use tobacco. Say 1-3 times a month. To my health insurance company, I am still classified as a "smoker". But that's beside the point.
We all know that smoking tobacco isn't good for our health. But what about soda pop?
Here is a little thought experiment:
Put a cigarette and a can of soda pop in front of your average American and ask them which is worse for one's health. I imagine they would will nearly all say the cigarette.
Now put a pack of cigarettes and 20 soda pops on the table. Ask the question: after one year of either smoking a pack a day, or drinking 20 soda pops a day, which behavior would have the most detrimental impact on one's health?
I submit it is the soda pop. Now assuming this is the case (I will admit that nobody has done this study and therefore nobody can claim to officially "know") WHY is it that it has become so popular to demonize smokers, while it is fine for McDonald's to advertise $1 "any size" soda pops on billboards?
For additional discussion: Did anybody else take notice back in the 80s when there was that big expose of the tobacco industry, where some of the executives admitted to putting additives in cigarettes in order to increase their addictiveness, that shortly afterwards Philip Morris bought Kraft and RJ Reynolds bought Nabisco?
We all know that smoking tobacco isn't good for our health. But what about soda pop?
Here is a little thought experiment:
Put a cigarette and a can of soda pop in front of your average American and ask them which is worse for one's health. I imagine they would will nearly all say the cigarette.
Now put a pack of cigarettes and 20 soda pops on the table. Ask the question: after one year of either smoking a pack a day, or drinking 20 soda pops a day, which behavior would have the most detrimental impact on one's health?
I submit it is the soda pop. Now assuming this is the case (I will admit that nobody has done this study and therefore nobody can claim to officially "know") WHY is it that it has become so popular to demonize smokers, while it is fine for McDonald's to advertise $1 "any size" soda pops on billboards?
For additional discussion: Did anybody else take notice back in the 80s when there was that big expose of the tobacco industry, where some of the executives admitted to putting additives in cigarettes in order to increase their addictiveness, that shortly afterwards Philip Morris bought Kraft and RJ Reynolds bought Nabisco?