At some point, maybe after a real crisis or sufficient sustained caloric deficit, people may finally notice that these predatory mommy‑monsters don’t actually care about anyone and that they’re up to something else. We have serious problems in the US and the list is growing daily. Yet few of these .edu virtue‑bots talk about the missing trillions at the Pentagon or the unprecedented numbers of homeless human beings squirming on the streets. They stayed quiet while the FDA let transfats and MSG fester in baby food for decades. They were fine with sludge on crop fields, fine with low‑fat/high‑sugar diets that helped wreck metabolic health. But..

But there’s an evil leaf out there, so bad, so unholy, that they’d better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.* The psycho-engineered magically numbered 20‑count overabundance and conveniently rolled delivery system of the cigarette pack; the cocktail of combustion byproducts and additives therein; the advertising psychology behind the whole apparatus -- insignificant!!! The real villain is the tobacco leaf itself, a plant that predates humanity,is pure evil, and contains a chemical so sinister that some people even benefit from it. Swedish Snus, where even the FDA has struggled to show clear carcinogenicity in normal use, gets no mention. Why? because heat and fermentation are the primary culprits in making tobacco carcinogenic. The “big bad”, though, is defined as the natural alkaloid nicotine, portrayed as worse than war, fentanyl, systemic corruption and death itself... because that story is an easy sell, marketed as “care.” They love you so much they’ll chain you to the floor of their gaslit paradigm to keep you “safe” from a singular, primary evil, while the rest of the system swiftly rots. All good MEN (with large sacks and biceps) know, if we can just conquer the one, greatest of evils (nicotine) we can have peace and well being on Earth forever.

Fuck you edu. You can have your addiction to epistemic dishonesty and keep publishing vomit. Let people have their fruit flavored nicotine pouches. Or, you might do real work and address the issue of market corruption and do an expose on how the monopoly against Snus was facilitated through your disinfo campaigns and is now almost impossible to find in the US, despite being found as generally safe by the FDA. But that would require integrity and courage.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Business/Selected_quote... or: ""Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson