Harry Guerrilla
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The obesity problem is one that nobody really wants to address, and my suspicion, is that it is because so many people are personally effected directly or indirectly. Our obesity rates are climbing, to the point that one in three will be considered obese in just a few years. Smokers and drinkers have been marginalized into a minority, and as we all know, it's okay to penalize smokers and drinkers, because they are the exception and not the rule. If we penalize the obese, then 1/3 of the population will have to take a look at themselves as a part of the problem, and God knows, we can't have that many people claiming personal responsibility. We just want to collectively point at the smokers as the derelicts who are ruining health care.
Unfortunately, some folks (like myself I suspect) have more than a simple addiction to cigarettes.
I think I'm predisposed to chronic depression, nicotine has been a fabulous regulator of it.
I tried anti depressants when I was a kid, they made me worse.