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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by istjohn on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:58PM (#20141116)
The local university research hospital emergency room is busiest by far on Friday and Saturday nights due to alcohol-related incidents.

NIDA puts the overall US national cost of tobacco use at $300 billion and of alcohol use at $249 billion.

It's impossible to become physically dependent on sugar, whereas an alcoholic can die if they quit cold turkey.

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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by purplerabbit on Sunday June 09, 2019 @03:56PM (#20141498)
Sure. But there are 300,000 obesity-related deaths per year. Obesity- and sugar-related issues are less likely to result in ER-type scenarios, but are nevertheless pervasive.
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