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That sounds like a weird combination up until you remember they were both considered medicinal at the time. Tobacco was advertised to clear out your lungs and help with weight loss. Soda formulae were literally drugs, the original cocacola had cocaine in it and was marketed as a hangover cure and a cure for morphine addiction.
tobacco does help with weight loss.
True, but I'm not sure I'd take up smoking just to cut a few pounds.
I'm just lamenting that we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater for so many things. Investigation of nicotine's appetite suppression could yield a better drug that does that, but we had to lie to ourselves and say "tobacco doesn't help people lose weight" For that matter the whole idea that a person should have to suffer to lose weight is complete bullshit. We need to find more ways to lose weight without feeling hungry. Natural is not inherently good.
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