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Is Fast Food the New Tobacco? Tobacco has for decades been linked to cancer, asthma, and many other illnesses. The CDC.gov website has history on when the government finally put labels on cigarettes. According to the site, On January 11, 1964, Luther L. Terry, M.D., Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, released the first report of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. In 1966 the Federal government mandated that cigarette packs have a warning on them from the surgeon general. The question of whether Fast food is the new tobacco is a loaded one. Some like myself would say yes. I say yes because it seems the government is trying to regulate fast food as they do tobacco and yet are not doing a great job. Slapping a label on things has never entirely deterred a person from using a product. Radley Balko’s article ‘What You Eat is Your Business’ published in 2004 talked about the government attempting to make mandates to control obesity. He said, “Con...

Is Pop Culture Good for You? Pop culture is a term that refers to products or activities that are currently being directed at and consumed by the mass population. In doing this assignment, I really thought hard about whether Pop culture is good. Pop culture encompasses so many different things that this question is difficult to answer. Pop culture includes the internet/social media, music, movies, various art forms, food, clothing and even hairstyles and makeup. Not everyone consumes what is considered popular the same way. I believe the consumption depends on what is important to the individual. For example, almost everyone I know has a tick-tock account and creates content or has participated in at least one of the video trends on there. I downloaded the app once, only because my niece created a video and wanted me to watch it and like it for her to get views. For about a week after that I would watch different fun videos there. The moment I needed to manage the space on my iPho...