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Excellent article on how companies are making smoking and food addictive with chemicals.

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Thank you. It is interesting the reference to ammonia and potassium nitrate. The nitrogen ions cause neurotoxic effects. My facial palsy I put down principally to sodium nitrite.

https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/sodium-nitrite-e250-the-poison-in?utm_source=publication-search

Tobacco would not be so much of an issue if it wasn't so poisoned by added chemicals including those on the crop, let alone in processing.

Tobacco's replacement vaping is bound to be a problem.

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yes, I see many young people hooked on vapes already, and I agree, it's all the extra 'stuff' that's the issue!

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I learned a huge amount about nicotine and smoking from your fantastic article. Thank you.

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thank you for reading!

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So our fault is were were not capable of defeating the addiction engineers,

I wonder if your promised post will be on self-assemble nano-technology, spike protein and lipid nano particles. At least they are tasteless...

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I definitely plan to get into the nano manipulations across Big Food & Big Pharma!

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Getting a little ridiculous with the attacks on the food industry. Never in the history of mankind have we been so blessed. Hunger is not the problem- obesity ( 80% of black American females have a BMI over 30). The poorest are the fattest. Thus, the verbiage has changed. No longer hunger but “ food insecurity.”

Instead of dying from dysentery or food poisoning from rotten food as a child, we die from diabetes as 55-year-old chubbies from overly nutritious food. Lets count our blessings.

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"Overly nutritious "?

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Exactly. Easy to drive up to Popeye’s get a bag of fried chicken and potatoes and whomp down 2000 calories in minutes. Filled with life sustaining food. . The food isnt the problem, the appetites are the problems. Just look at the crowd

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my point in writing this article was to show how it's all interconnected and profit-driven (or worse) at the expense of health. I'm not saying a shortage of food is the main problem, in fact I mention how a "plethora" may be part of the issue.

I'm also not saying people should be told what they can or can't eat, I simply believe that people should be made aware - more transparency - and companies should be held accountable.

As for overeating, yes, but there's also a biochemical reason for that. Simply look into ghrelin and leptin and how processed foods lead to imbalances in those hormones.

those who engineer these 'foods' know exactly what they are doing.

I hope to elucidate this further in an article about Big Food/Big Pharma

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They should everyone alone to do what they want to do or eat or ingest within reason.

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But still there is hunger, even in Appalachia in the US and in other poorer countries. These countries need fresh water and healthy food as in India and Africa, not shots. Instead of further poisoning the people in these countries, Gates et al should use some of his wealth to help them instead of trying to kill them.

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Despite SNAP, government cheese, Medicaid, WIC? There is still hunger?

Then our social sevuce networks are inept.

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IMHO, that's right OR just what they want them to do!

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