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Re:A Chemical Hunger – Part V: Livestock Antibiotics by hellbannedguy on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:48AM (#27917779)
And many were smokers.
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Re:A Chemical Hunger – Part V: Livestock Antibiotics by ginko on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:12AM (#27917937)
Ooh, that's an interesting correlation. The number of smokers dropped a lot since the 80s, essentially right when the obesity epidemic started:

https://ourworldindata.org/smoking#the-rise-and-fall-of-smok...

Nicotine is known to suppress hunger

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Re:A Chemical Hunger – Part V: Livestock Antibiotics by giantg2 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:19AM (#27917988)
It's also possible that nicotine triggers epigenetic changes that affect the metabolisms of future generations.
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