"The reason cigarettes cause cancer is not the tobacco but the cheap mineral fertilizer used to grow tobacco for cigarette companies, which happens to be radioactive. Pipe and cigar smokers who smoke organically grown tobacco do not suffer the same high incidence of cancer that smokers of corporate-produced cigarettes do.
As for obesity, the same evil influence is at work. The problem isn't food or exercise, but chemicals added to food by the corporations that make people want to eat more, in order to boost profits. Among these are monosodium glutamate, or MSG, advertised as a flavor enhancer, but in actuality it interferes with the brain's signal that the body has eaten enough. Then there is aspartame, sold as a diet aid, but in actuality it increases the body's craving for carbohydrates. Then there are all the hormones pumped into livestock to make them grow larger and faster which are not fully metabolized before the animal is harvested. People eating the meat and other products from those animals also ingest those hormones, triggering similar growth (and in children, early maturity)."
