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When they clear their shelves of all the soda, sugary and corn based snacks and fake medications (homeopathic garbage) then I'll begin to take their concern for health seriously. Obesity and diabetes is a far greater health risk than cigarettes. Cigarettes are awful for many reasons and they smell bad but corn and HFCS based foods make sick and kill a lot more people (and cost society much more!) than cigarettes.

It's no wonder than countries with high rates of smoking (France, Japan) who have diets that lack all the garbage the CVS's of the world peddle have some of the highest life expectancies.

Smokers are just an easy, minority target to vilify and it needs to stop.



They have to start somewhere.




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