Anonymous10 days ago
A landmark study in The Milbank Quarterly identifies five engineering strategies shared between the tobacco and ultra-processed food industries — dose optimization, delivery speed, hedonic engineering, environmental ubiquity, and deceptive reformulation — tracing many of these practices to the decades when Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds owned major food brands. As San Francisco sues 10 food manufacturers and countries from Chile to Mexico report measurable consumption declines from warning labels and taxes, the scientific and political debate over whether ultra-processed foods should be regulated like cigarettes is intensifying.