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Research Suggests Tobacco Companies Add Weight Loss Drugs
smitty777 writes "According to an article from the European Journal of Public Health, the tobacco companies have been implicated in adding a number of drugs to tobacco products (PDF) to enhance their weight-reducing properties. Discovery News explains the neurological process for appetite suppression, which involves activating pro-opiomelanocortin cells in the hypothalamus."
Then don't smoke...pretty simple isn't it? Oh, I'm addicted, I'm a victim, I don't have the will power. In other words, you are a weak pathetic human being that can't overcome something? In the "old days", if you wanted to quit smoking, you QUIT! And as a kid, as I was, you had to put up with your parents getting use to not having nicotine in their system. After a couple of weeks, even after smoking for 20 years, they were done with it and back to normal. Now, you have a patch for this, group for that...geez! No wonder the (USA) is so screwed up. We don't know how to stand on our own two feet without a "support group" for everything. It's a good thing the people of today (in the USA) aren't trying to found a new country...they'd die within the first few hours without a cell phone, starbucks, facebook to deal with. Imagine having to FIND your own food. Bunch of pathetic weak a$$ sheeple is what we have become.