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1. Unstable Isotope says:

   January 5, 2009 at 10:51 am

   Smoking a handful of cigarettes, definitely. Regular sodas are sugar delivery machines and deliver 100 calories per can. If you manage your diet, it won’t matter too much. There’s no managing you can do to account for cigarettes. Plus, cigarettes also have 2nd hand (and now 3rd hand) hazards.

2. anon says:

   January 5, 2009 at 11:06 am

   uh-oh. I sense an ex-wife story coming on.

3. RSmitty says:

   January 5, 2009 at 11:11 am

   What UI said (and anon, for that matter). Cigarettes don’t just stop at the user. Plus, soda-junkies can reverse the damage (unless it pushed them into diabetes, which then they have to manage it).

4. h. says:

   January 5, 2009 at 11:16 am

   Depends on how big your hands are.

5. anon says:

   January 5, 2009 at 11:19 am

   Plus, cigarettes also have 2nd hand (and now 3rd hand) hazards.

   If you have a 3rd hand it is definitely time to stop smoking.

6. Arthur Downs says:

   January 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm

   Perhaps Big Brother is Big Nanny in drag.

   I suppose the progressive mindset can be rather sective when it lurches into neo-puritanism.

7. Dana says:

   January 5, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   So, what about my four to five cans of Mountain Dew a day? No cigarettes, though!

   Just remember: Mountain Dew is a good source for two of the four main food groups, sugar and caffeine.

8. Donhusseinsquishviti says:

   January 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm

   high fructose corn syrup

   do some research people

9. nemski says:

   January 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm

   The fact of the matter is that cigarettes are made to make one an addict. Soda, though people drink it like it was beer, is not. Therefore, I say cigarettes.

10. Unstable Isotope says:

    January 5, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Even if you stopped drinking soda, you’d still get HFCS. There’s really no way for Americans to avoid it unless you become a raw food vegan or something.

11. donviti says:

    January 5, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    actually nemski soda or more specfically sugar is highly addictive. it boosts the dopamines in your brain and you go through w/draw similar to that of alcohol
    this is mrs. hotviti….dv was on my computer again

12. RSmitty says:

    January 5, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    Oh…whoa…so do we have this backwards? Are YOU the one who smokes handfuls of cigarettes?

    😛

13. anonone says:

    January 5, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    A big study on high fructose corn syrup by a M.D. who thought that it was more of a problem than table sugar just concluded it wasn’t.

    They are both equally bad and addictive. 🙁

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98657403

14. nemski says:

    January 5, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Sugar more addictive than nicotine? I don’t think so.

15. nemski says:

    January 5, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    PS, I’m not saying drinking soda is good for you, but I was given an either or scenario.

16. mrs. hotviti says:

    January 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    just the comment the post was all dv.

    and nemski addictions are addictions regardless of the culprit: read this
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_addiction

17. Donhusseinsquishviti says:

    January 5, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    nemski,

    if I had to give it a 1 to 10 number smoking being a 10. I’d give the soda an 8.

    one soda a day for the rest of your life would be a horrible thing for ones body.

    Sure smoking causes cancer. But diabetes is pretty awful too. Blindness, amputation, dialysis.

    Those pepsi commercials are so cute how could they mean harm?

18. Anon says:

    January 5, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Cigarettes make you look cooler and older.

19. jen says:

    January 5, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    CIGARETTES ARE SO MUCH WORSE THAN SODAS. I smoked for 14 years and I am so damned glad that I quit smoking!! One soda a day may be regrettable, but it ain’t gonna kill most people. Take a look at what crap people put in their shopping carts at the grocery store. Now, put all of that processed stuff back on the shelves and go pick up some real foods: fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy products, some decent breads–the real, pure stuff with as little processing as possible. Now, go home and cook it yourself. Drink ore water.

    I would rather have a beer each day than a soda, anyway.

20. flutecake says:

    January 5, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    23, because footballs don’t have feathers.

21. Dana says:

    January 5, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    Anon wrote:

    Cigarettes make you look cooler and older.

    Cooler, because you are standing out in the cold smoking, ’cause it ain’t allowed in the building.

22. Dana says:

    January 5, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    But, to be more serious, my mother died at age 61 thanks to cigarettes. She started when she was around 18 — which would have been about 1946 — when cigarettes were cool and not harmful.

    Well, in the early 1980s, the gunk had put a film on the inside of her lungs, and she developed COPD: just breathing was a struggle. She had a two story house, and it was ten steps up to the landing, a right turn, and another seven steps up to the second floor; she had to stop on the landing to catch her breath, before she could make it the rest of the way upstairs.

    My mother was never big — maybe 105 lb — but when she died she was down to 80 lb. Why? Because when you swallow food, you hold your breath, and eating takes time away from breathing, and COPD sufferers have a very difficult time.

    As it happens, my family was blessed with good genes: we almost never get sick, and when we do, we throw off a three-day bug in a day. That was my mother, that was my sisters, that’s me, and it’s even been my kids so far. Mom never got cancer or any illnesses that the immune system could fight off; she just developed a coating on the inside of her lungs through which it was difficult for oxygen to pass. If she hadn’t smoked, she’d probably have lived into her nineties.

23. Unstable Isotope says:

    January 5, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    LOL@Dana #21. Too true!

    I don’t mean to sound glib, but diabetes is a manageable disease. It’s certainly something you want to avoid, but my dad has been managing diabetes for 20 yrs., my best friend from high school for almost her whole life. My grandfather lived into his mid 80s despite being insulin dependent.

24. cassandra_m says:

    January 5, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    One or two sodas a day probably aren’t too bad, but when you pile on all of the other sources of sugar (and that mostly HFCS) present in alot of our diets, Americans take in alot of sugar. Most of the popular low-carb diets are focused on really reducing the amount of sugar you take in.

    I quit smoking 5 years ago (anniversary tomorrow!) after quitting multiple times before. The CW about quitting nicotine is that it is harder to do that than to quit heroin. No idea if that is true, but the first 3 months were really, really tough.

25. meatball says:

    January 6, 2009 at 11:10 am

    After I lost one of my lungs to cancer, I cut my smoking in half. (That’s a joke, yo).