The difference lies in the intended use of the two products. The popularly recognized intended use of a Big Mac is to reward one's kid after a little league game, or to supplement one's appetite in a time constraint situation, or while traveling. If one treats fast food as a reward, an occasional treat, or a situational necessity, as is its intended purpose, it is basically harmless. Yet, when someone uses cigarettes for the purpose the tobacco companies intended, and smoke a pack a day, there are imminent and serious health complications involved. It is one's own personal responsibility to exercise will power.
             Further support for this argument comes from the vast number of test products concocted by every single fast food chain and tailored to the public, so if the food is unhealthy the public is to blame. Fast food is big business, and that means big bucks. Bruce Horovitz of USA Today states that new products hits are "the lifeblood of the $105.5 billion dollar-a-year fast food industry. Ronald McDonald is starving for the next Big Mac. Taco Bell is ever hungry f
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