Tobacco companies add weight-loss drugs

[cosmicalstorm]

Ever heard the line "I would love to stop smoking, but it's going to make me fat so..." -- Now you know why. Not that there is a dire need to prove that smoking sucks for your personal health but still interesting.

The tobacco industry’s past role in weight control related to smoking
Background: Smoking is thought to produce an appetite-suppressing effect by many smokers. Thus, the fear of body weight gain often outweighs the perception of health benefits associated with smoking cessation, particularly in adolescents. We examined whether the tobacco industry played a role in appetite and body weight control related to smoking and smoking cessation.
Methods: We performed a systematic search within the archives of six major US and UK tobacco companies (American Tobacco, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, Lorillard, Brown & Williamson and British American Tobacco) that were Defendants in tobacco litigation settled in 1998. Findings are dated from 1949 to 1999. Results: The documents revealed the strategies planned and used by the industry to enhance effects of smoking on weight and appetite, mostly by chemical modifications of cigarettes contents. Appetite-suppressant molecules, such as tartaric acid and 2-acetylpyridine were added to some cigarettes.
Conclusion: These tobacco companies played an active and not disclaimed role in the anti-appetite effects of smoking, at least in the past, by adding appetite-suppressant molecules into their cigarettes.

http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/conten ... 3.full.pdf

[Norade]

It still confuses me that the government doesn't just ban additives to tobacco all together. It's not like sales would drop massively if they stopped adding massive amounts of tar and shit to an already harmful product.

[DPDarkPrimus]

It still confuses me that the government doesn't just ban additives to tobacco all together. It's not like sales would drop massively if they stopped adding massive amounts of tar and shit to an already harmful product.

But then they'd have to use more tobacco! And that costs more!

[Norade]

It still confuses me that the government doesn't just ban additives to tobacco all together. It's not like sales would drop massively if they stopped adding massive amounts of tar and shit to an already harmful product.

But then they'd have to use more tobacco! And that costs more!

Great then they can raise prices and the government makes more through taxes. The government wins.