You have to hand it to the tobacco industry, it's a total ethics free zone.
We all know that tobacco suppresses appetite and scientists have found that nicotine activates neurons to send signals the body has had enough to eat. So it happens already.
What then are we to make of this report in the European Journal of Public Health which found that the tobacco industry wanted to heighten that effect to boost sales? Appetite-suppressant molecules, such as tartaric acid and 2-acetylpyridine, were added to some cigarettes to encourage weight loss and ensure that more people would keep killing themselves by smoking in order to lose weight.
They found clear evidence that Phillip Morris and British American Tobacco put the appetite depressants molecule inside cigarettes to enhance this effect. All this was on top of the industry already treating the cigarettes with substances to encourage the deadly addiction.
Clearly, this was a strategy targeting women. Most smokers want to stop smoking, but for many, the fear of body weight gain can outweigh the perception of potential health benefits associated with smoking cessation, particularly in women. The tobacco industry was just helping that along, and killing more people along the way.
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